SHADDOWBOSSES: THE WORST OF BOOKS

Shaddowbosses: this book should hit the wastebasket like an amputated limb in a MASH Tent. I have never read the book. I read a review on Amazon.Com and heard the author describe it on Morning Joe. That was enough. The book sounds like “big business” paid a radical conservative writer to trash unions. It is on the level of an Ann Coulter book. He distorts facts and, with innuendos, implies the heads of unions are somehow criminals all abased on faulty logic.

As evidence of the strength of his logic, he cites the effect of what happened in Wisconsin after Scott Walker trashed public unions. He explained that the unions had negotiated high pensions and high wages for state workers. According to Conservative philosophy, if something is good for workers, it is bad for everyone else. As a radial conservative, Scott Walker passed laws that said workers no longer had to belong to unions. As a result, about half the membership abandoned the union. When someone on Morning Joe asked him why that happened, he said it was because the unions were not doing the workers any good. The right answer is that they, like most conservatives, did not want to pay union dues; let someone else pay but let them collect the benefits.