Government Worker Eric Alterman Defends Public Employee Unions

Nation columnist and government worker, tenured professor Eric Alterman defends public employee unions:

The assault on public employee unions is the next phase of a forty-year class war in America by the rich against the rest of us. It is of a piece with the steady dismantling of our progressive taxation system and the explosion of economic inequality.

Being Eric Alterman means levitating above class struggle, an "altruism" one can't find in the private sector. Professor Alterman would rather not talk about the 3600 California prison guards who make over $100,000 a year. What about the 10% of the Massachusetts state troopers that make more than their Governor? When Eric Alterman talks about "snowjobs" is he talking about P.E. teachers in Illinois that make over $175,000? The "rest of us" to Eric Alterman.