I consider the fate of organized labor to be one of the crucial issues of our time.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-labor8apr08,1,4818592.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Arnold has now targeted to cut all state funding for the one academic institute we have that is devoted to labor issues in CA. this is so ridiculous considering how much universities have been so corporatized to benefit private corporate interests. This is class warfare against working people and Dems should speak up about that. Luckily,we have the wily John Burton who i suspect will not let the cuts happen. but conservatives have been so organized for the past 3 decades in weakening labor. our side doesn't do nearly as good a job in supporting/advocating for labor.