Rallying Back

Dan Berrett:

The fact that the American Federation of Teachers' annual meeting on higher education took place in a hotel here alongside the American Professional Wound Care Association was, to be sure, a quirk of scheduling. But the irony was not lost on several of those attending.

Organized labor has suffered punishing blows in recent days and weeks, in Wisconsin and Ohio, with the promise of further attacks on collective bargaining to come in other states, such as Indiana, Michigan and Florida.

"This has been about the worst year that I could have ever imagined happening," Ed Muir, AFT's deputy director of research and information services, said at the opening plenary session Friday. "Our enemies were given more political power than ever before."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 6, 2011 1:08 AM
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