More On Trumka's Speech

In another post I reported on a speech by Rich Trumka and expressed my doubts about labor's independence now and in the 2012 elections.

Roger Bybee and In These Times takes a different approach than I did. Bybee says:

Last Friday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered a thunderous speech to the National Press Club that captured wide attention for its forceful assertion of labor’s political independence, widely seen as a warning to President Obama and Democratic members of Congress, and especially aimed at Democratic governors.

But it was also, in my view, an extraordinary step forward in the AFL-CIO’s transformation under Trumka's leadership toward a social movement with a strong appeal to America’s insecure middle class and struggling poor people.

Read the article here.