I do not agree with every single thing in this tweetstorm, but man, did this guy touch every single Third Rail in California politics. Real. https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1002231716453363712 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
The problem is we are progressive only for the perspective of the rest of the nation. I’m a low tier public employee so I do have self interests against much of this rant, but the goal should be to spread the benefits of unions back to the rest of the private economy.
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Replying to @democraticJon
Ppl I know who have run large, complex public systems feel that everyone should have access to broad-based benefits, not a subset of people who are able to favorably negotiate for themselves in ways that surreptitiously cannibalize public services we can offer future generations.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Absolutely, public services are the primary goal, not employees’ benefits. At the same time we need to be cognizant that public sector unions are the final focus of the right’s decades-old attacks on workers in the broader economy.
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Replying to @democraticJon @kimmaicutler
Problem is, we are losing in the battle to promote the benefits of both - the public sector and worker’s rights. At least rhetorically, CA nor the nation is progressive on these fronts.
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Replying to @democraticJon
This is a really hard conversation for Californians to have. Because private sector unions, a huge institutional engine of Democratic turnout and negotiating tool for workers, have absolutely been gutted over the last generation. But CAs public sector unions, including some like
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CCPOA, do things that aren’t progressive at all.
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