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On this episode of the Iron Bill Hohlfeld show labor writer Robert Ovetz talks about the “Stockholm Syndrome” impacting too many labor leaders today where they start to “think about the issues from the perspective of the boss” — and how that sad reality correlates to the fight retired trade unionists in New York City are having trying to save their traditional Medicare benefits from being stripped and privatized.

"It’s incredible, the labor committees of all these labor unions throughout New York City have voted overwhelming against their members’ interests,” Ovetz tells Bill “In order to do what? In order to preserve the existing healthcare system that the unions have a financial stake in.”

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