Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights’

[kpete]

REAGAN: The Polish government has trampled underfoot to the UN Charter and Helsinki accords. It has even broken the Gdańsk Agreement of 1980 by which the Polish government recognized the basic right of free trade unions and to strike.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/25/flashback-reagan-union-right/

[calimary]

1. HAH! And he was a union president at one point.

An actress friend of ours - she's quite elderly now - remembers that, and she summed it up one day by saying "he really screwed the actors" as Screen Actors Guild president. Then he gained the White House and really screwed the rest of us, too.

Fucker.

[liberal N proud]

2. That before he stared busting unions himself

Remember the Air Traffic Controllers?

[rfranklin]

3. But that was Poland...

Always the double standard.