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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, February 09, 2004 ::
No Sweat Shopping By Jeff Ballinger, counterpunch
I'll never forget watching Johnny Carson as a kid and, whenever unions were mentioned, Doc Severinsen's band would strike up, 'Look for The Union Label'. This wasn't some ditty that was penned by a sympathetic do--gooder -- it was from Madison Avenue. Similarly, when Sally Field won the Academy Award for her portrayal of the J.P. Stevens sweatshop worker, the ACTWU hired a professional agency to get the REAL Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) booked onto local TV talk shows across the nation. But, as membership dwindled (I was in the Organizing Dept. of the Textile Workers when the union was losing 4,000 members per month), less money could be devoted to these tactics. By the time Harvard Business Review was lauding Phil Knight's 'hollow corporation' model in the mid--80s, things had hit bottom in the U.S.------------------------------------------- posted 6:49 PM :: reference link ::
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