Of Teamsters and Turtles, Plumbers and Progressives, a MayDay rumination
Ever since the much-promoted alliance between “teamsters and turtles†at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, there’s been a renewed hope that the decades-long opposition between organized labor and environmentalists might be resolvable. The original Teamsters and turtles weren’t really in much of an alliance in 1999, what with AFL-CIO leaders trying their best [...]
