[Peace-discuss] Andy Stern: I wasn't right-wing enough

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://forward.com/articles/139289/

Former Union President Andy Stern Says He Was Too Tough on Banks at SEIU
By Josh Nathan-Kazis

Andy Stern has had a change of heart. Once the president of the most politically 
influential of America’s progressive labor organizations, and the most prominent 
Jewish leader in the labor movement, Stern now thinks he was too hard on private 
equity and banks.

Stern is also backing a proposed tax break for American companies keeping 
revenues abroad, a pro-business initiative that his former union calls a “tax 
giveaway” to corporations.

The onetime president of the Service Employees International Union, Stern now 
sits on a corporate board and says that unions may be too close to the 
Democratic Party. ...