There’s lots of talk on lefty-prog blogs about the Democratic Party picking a non-union town with non-union hotels and a non-union civic center as the home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention. For a party so beholden to unions, it seems an odd choice.
But maybe not so much. As it happens, rival unions in the other candidate cities (Cleveland, St. Louis, Minneapolis) just couldn’t get with the program and mend their fences. So…:
That leaves Charlotte, the only choice that could be made, where there are no unions to fight over turf and no union bosses’ egos to be bruised. Charlotte has become the union-free Switzerland.
Besides the irony that the union-controlled DNC has likely chosen to go union-free because union bosses can’t get along with each other, there is the real impact on those union members in one of the three other “union cities” who will not be getting the work because of their union bosses’ own egos.