Remapping Debate sat down down with Nelson Lichtenstein — MacArthur Foundation Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara — to try to put the current crisis for the labor movement in context. The discussion included an assessment of the tactics of GOP governors and anti-union allies to set worker against worker, and a look at how the Obama Administration — from its handling of bank bailouts onward — effectively left the GOP and its allies free to set the terms of debate, most notably with the idea that the only thing to be done about state fiscal crisis is to cut programs, wages, and benefits.
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