That tired message: Blame workers

Robert J. Haynes, President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO, Malden, Boston Globe, March 8, 2010 The Globe professes that “the solutions are clear enough’’ to the problem of rising health insurance costs (“Soaring municipal health costs cry out for a state overhaul,’’ Editorial, March 2), yet does not address the actual solutions or the real problems, and chooses instead to scapegoat workers. The position that workers’ collective bargaining rights and agreements are the problem ... That