Labor's internal problems.

• Author: Sirefman, Josef P.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

Bill Fletcher Jr.'s "For Labor, What's After Michigan?" (March issue) focuses on the "outside" pressures against workers. It fails to deal with the very real "inside" long-term pressures that continue to weaken unions:

1) The continuing impact of so many members becoming, or continuing to become, "Reagan Democrats";

2) Union members consistently voting against their own interests in choosing representatives, e.g., private-sector members supporting elimination of public-sector unions;

3) The breathtaking haste with which the de-unionized teachers and civil servants...