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Saul Alinsky devoted his intellect and his life to helping poor people.
Your Jesus would have liked him. I was delighted to spend some time
working with one of Alinsky's organizations and later retaining him as
key speaker at a convention for an organization for which I worked. Oh,
at that convention as it was closing, the professional staff went out on
strike and stayed out for 10 days. Management, of which I was a part,
could not get a settlement. On the 10th day, the union's chief
negotiator asked that I be brought to the table to represent management.
I settled the strike on the 11th day in less than an hour without it
costing the organization a dollar more than it had budgeted for staff.
That was the first time I worked as a labor negotiator. About a decade
later, I was part of a postal labor management committee that negotiated
the largest labor contract in the history of the United States....."
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So you stuck in your thumb and pulled out a plum and said " dang! what a good boy am I"