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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ::
One big union? by Mike Martin, Straight Goods
Move afoot to reconfigure US unions into a New Unity Partnership.
Some labour observers see the Carpenters Union and its outspoken president, Douglas McCarron, as being at least the kingmaker, if not future king, of this initiative. McCarron took his union out of the AFL-CIO three years ago. He has hinted at forming a rival central labour body ever since. His biggest bone of contention was that he resented having to pay for the national, state and local structures that were necessary to maintain the AFL-CIO. His proposed solution was to put this money into organizing instead.
That is one of the key principles of the NUP, which also proposes to allocate 77% of its resources to organizing. It would eliminate elections to the State Federations and Central Labor Councils, and get rid of or reduce a majority of the AFL-CIO's 19 national departments that do not contribute directly to organizing efforts, including those dealing with public relations, publications, education and health and safety.------------------------------------------- posted 6:13 AM :: reference link ::
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