LABOR LEFT OUT OF THE DISCUSSION

I wasn't going to get on the computer today, but I'm really pissed off. I'm listening to the President of the World Bank, Mr. Robert Zoellick , who was previously managing director of Goldman Sachs and former Vice President of Fannie Mae. During 1999, Zoellick served on a panel that offered Enron executives briefings on economic and political issues. "In the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign, Zoellick served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of a group, led by Condoleezza Rice, that called itself The Vulcans. James Baker designated him as his second-in-command — "a sort of chief operating officer or chief of staff" — in the 36-day battle over recounting the vote in Florida.[11]" You can read about Zoellick on wikipedia.

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Mr. Zoellick's past is more than a little scary to me. I heard him on C-SPAN2 this morning. He was talking about the G20 meeting coming up and his conversation turned to the CEO's of major corporations, etc.

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This is my major criticism of these groups (G8, G20, World Bank, etc.) and most politicians and major corporations; that criticism is that labor is left out of almost every discussion. Labor has virtually no representation at all.

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Without labor, there is no corporation. What's equally frustrating is that white collar and blue collar labor (management will not be part of these groups) are always at odds. One group thinks it's better than the other group while both groups are getting screwed.

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There has always been a concerted effort by the power players to keep labor fractured. ALWAYS! God forbid that they join together as a cohesive group around the world asking for an equal share of the wealth. Wise-up labor. You consistently point fingers at the wrong people instead of forming a united front ... a united labor organization. Do you really want to go back to business as usual? Cause that's where we are headed right now!!!!

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