It’s no secret that union types consider the Koch brothers evil incarnate. (Although we think it’s mostly that “Koch” is easy to spell, easy to rhyme and fits nicely on a piece of poster board.) And it doesn’t seem to matter much that the Libertarian brothers blame Republicans as much as Democrats for big government and support a fairly left wing social agenda including gay marriage and the end to military involvement overseas. What’s shocking is how unions are still hectoring the Kochs after the president of the Steelworkers wrote they are actually pretty darn good union employers. “While the Koch brothers are credited with advocating an agenda and groups that are clearly hostile to labor and labor’s agenda, the brothers’ company in practice and in general has positive and productive collective bargaining relationships with its unions. While some companies are running from investment in American jobs, The Koch brothers’ Georgia Pacific just reached agreements with its primary union in the paper industry to invest more than a half a billion dollars in capital to essentially create two state-of-the-art machines that conserve fiber and energy at two separate union mills.” Meanwhile, we are still trying to parse out the moral distinctions between making millions miraculously saving a major corporation and thousands of jobs (Ford CEO Alan Mulally) and making millions creating blowhard documentaries that exploit human suffering while refusing to use union labor. (Michael Moore) Perhaps continuing to dress and groom oneself like the destitute helps.
