WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Ken Franklin
Ken Franklin, Pres. of Local 308, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
[Transportation workers] are like the vessels in the heart. We feed the economic engine of the cities. That allows hundreds of thousands of businesses to operate and gives the people in the cities a way of life. -- Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers
Rich Miller (Capitol Fax)
What is most obvious...is Rauner's passion for what he calls "economic freedom," which roughly translates to: "Kill the unions." -- Crain's
Pope Francis tells Italian union leaders...
"There is no good society without a good union, and there is no good union that isn't reborn every day in the peripheries, that doesn't transform the rejected stones of the economy into corner stones." -- America, the Jesuit ReviesPaul Krugman on GOP health-care bill
So it’s vast suffering — including, according to the best estimates, around Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: