At a
meeting in Milwaukee hosted by a group of rank-and-file workers who are
members of AFSCME where I was asked to make a presentation on the need
for a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity," one
of the participants informed me that the Harvard educated Bill Fletcher,
Jr. spoke at a conference about labor history in Wisconsin.
While in Wisconsin I met with several other people who attended this conference, too.
I understand Fletcher made the erroneous claim that the Taft-Hartley Act was the beginning of the big business attack on labor.
Why does Bill Fletcher, Jr. knowingly falsify history in this way?
Fletcher is well aware that it was the fight between labor and Wall
Street's organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, National
Association of Manufacturers, etc. that marked the beginning of Wall
Street's attack on labor which one of the results was the Taft-Hartley
Act.
But, why does Fletcher intentionally omit any mention of
this ferocious and bitter hard fought struggle over the "Full Employment
Act of 1945" which labor lost?
Because, if Fletcher mentioned
this struggle over the "Full Employment Act of 1945" he would then have
to explain that this Act would have required the president and Congress
to attain and maintain full employment; and, then, Fletcher and his
left-wing Obama supporters would have to explain why they are pushing
the Democrat's agenda of continuing to make full employment a voluntary
"goal" instead of pushing forward a labor agenda making full employment a
mandatory requirement.
Fletcher and his Obama supporting pals
are afraid of a huge battle that would be a rematch of the fight over
the "Full Employment Act of 1945" because then Democrats would be held
accountable every time they mouthed the words, "jobs, jobs, jobs."