Aw heck, since we don't know what Obama will do I'd give the guy the benefit of the doubt and grade him at a 6 out of 20.  As far as I'm concerned there is no difference between McCain and Clinton, give 'em a 1/20.  Both are slimy corporate greed-heads who would sell their grandmothers for a buck twenty-five.

Don't know if you saw What's the Matter with U.S. Organized Labor?
An Interview with Robert Fitch over on Monthly Review.  If you didn't it's worth a read.  Fitch, IMO, fingers the fundamental problem with American Unionism and until that is fixed - somehow - and the Unions develop back into a mass-movement we're never going to get a truly Leftist Political Party in the US.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre