To the Editor: In response to Richard Steier’s column “Meet the New Left, Just as Daft as the Old Left” (Sept. 6 issue), a progressive can be critical of the UFT and other unions without being a member of the DSA or believe it is possible or even a good idea “to engineer a quiet takeover of a half-dozen city unions.”
For example, in Democratic primaries the UFT, which in many areas has been a progressive union, unfortunately also has a long history of both endorsing and working for candidates backed by the state and city Democratic Party machines, when more-progressive candidates have run against them.
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