Lynn Martin
Awfully nice of Labor Secretary Lynn Martin to smear all Americans who don’t sign their own paychecks with her statement that “ . . . their (labor’s) agenda is not America’s” (Interview, Opinion, March 15).
If Martin would take a look across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans she would see that the industrialized nations beating us in the marketplace, standard of living, worker productivity, infant mortality, literacy rates, leisure time, in fact every quantifiable quality-of-life factor, are nations with either a large and powerful labor union movement, or nations with such enlightened attitudes toward people who work for a living as to obviate the need for a labor movement.
It is far, far more accurate to say “the Republican Party’s agenda is not America’s.”
MICHAEL DAVIDSON, Studio City
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