A.F.L.-C.I.O. Backs Keystone Oil Pipeline, if Indirectly

[Proletariatprincess]

8. Indeed it is...

I, and others, believe that the Labor movement was almost mortally wounded when it expelled the leftests, socialist and the communists during the red scare and later. They were the True believers and backbones of trade unionism. It is the radicals in any movement that serve as it's conscious and the instigators of progressive thought and change. Without them the Unions became soft on management and collaborators with corrupt and misguided US foreign policy around the world. This resulted in the dimunition of the Movement and a leadership structure that believed that serving it's members like an insurance company was more important that it's mission of raising the value of labor and the quality of life for workers.