by Bob Herbert
You know you’ve stepped into a different universe when you hear a major American labor leader saying matter-of-factly that employer-based health insurance and employer-based pensions are relics of a bygone industrial economy.
Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has 1.9 million members and is the fastest-growing union in the country, is not your ordinary union leader. With Labor Day approaching, he was reflecting on some of the challenges facing workers in a post-20th-century globalized economy. . .
He told me, "I’d like to say to the Democrats that we are as far today from the New Deal as the New Deal was from the Civil War. . . We’re a team in the 21st-century period of rapid change and competition," he said. "And right now, we don’t have leadership, and we don’t have a plan."
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