Originally Posted by DaveNelson

I wouldn't be that rough on Jack London, but he was indeed a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century advocate of the working man--which in that day meant you were a socialist, or more accurately, a member of the Socialist Labor Party.

I'm not criticizing that. Had I been a trade unionist in that epoch, I'd have been a socialist also. Most likely, a score of years later, I'd have been accused of being a communist.

My problem is with airline pilots who conveniently brand themselves as trade unionists when it comes time to negotiate their own contracts, but in every other facet of their lives, vote for political candidates and ally with political factions that don't have labor's interests at heart.