"MUST BE WILLING TO WAGE CLASS WAR. LIBERALS NEED NOT APPLY."
That was at the bottom of an application form for union organizing for the SEIU in Ohio. Jim Straub tells about it.
This man is not necessarily our friend.
We need to hear him speak.
His name is James Straub. He's a writer and a union organizer with Local 1107 SEIU Hospital Workers in Las Vegas. (That makes it easy to invite him.) Straub has things to say that liberals need to hear.
He has a very different take on what is happening in America than we do--not conflicting, but from a different perspective.
He wrote an article - obligatory reading - in Monthly Review, titled "What Was the Matter with Ohio?: Unions and Evangelicals in the Rust Belt".
There is an interview with him on Against the Grain under the heading Unions and Evangelicals on 3/13/06 (mp3 here).