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Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other? | Intercepts

Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other? | Intercepts

Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other?

Now that Andrew Stern is stepping down as head of SEIU, there has been a lot of hubbub about the fact that there will actually be a contested election to succeed him. The heir-apparent, Anna Burger, is being challenged by Mary Kay Henry.
Media outlets are branding this as some sort of battle between the old guard and someone “freah and new,” butLabor Notes is having none of it. Steve Early writes that Henry is “about as far from the grassroots as sky-boxes are from the astro-turf in a