In a contentious meeting Friday, one of the state’s most politically powerful unions tried but failed to unite around a Democratic candidate for US Senate, dealing a blow to US Representative Stephen F. Lynch, a former ironworker and union leader.
Lynch and US Representative Edward J. Markey, who are squaring off in the Democratic primary, made their pitches to the state AFL-CIO but the executive board remained torn between the two politicians, both seen as friends of labor.
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Lynch's failure to support the health care affordability and portability act is hard to understand. I would have trouble voting for him for that reason and because he has historically not supported women's reproductive freedom.
You're right about that Kate, Mr. Lynch probably has a problem with the 3000 abortions performed everyday in America, but knows he'll lose if he says that.
These guys will eat their own. Lynch should turn his card in.They stabbed him in the back.
Markey voted for NAFTA in 1993 and for GATT (which created the WTO) in 1994 and since then Massachusetts lost 175,706 manufacturing jobs (or 41 percent) during the NAFTA-WTO period (1994-2012), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.* This figure is for total manufacturing employment, so it takes into account both jobs created by exports and jobs displaced by imports, among other causes of net job change. The percentage of all private sector jobs that are manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts declined from 17.9 percent to 8.9 percent during the NAFTA-WTO period. The Economic Policy Institute found that 17,100 jobs have been lost or displaced in Massachusetts – and over 680,000 in the United States – due to the rise in the trade deficit with Mexico alone since NAFTA was enacted in 1994.
After 37 years on the public nipple, Markey should be retiring, not running for the Senate.