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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, September 20, 2004 ::
million worker march by bakunin661, Daily Kos
the union movement is splitting into two big powerful camps right now, the standard afl-cio and the NUP, led by Sterns at the SEIU and including several other giant ones. There hasn't been a formal split or anything, but this has been openly threatened, and we can bet that there'll be civil war in the labor movement as soon as the election is over (which part of me thinks is freaking idiotic, when they should either be consolidating influence over kerry or drawing wagons into a circle to fight back bush).
problem is that the NUP looks nice on paper, but doesn't really address any of the deeper problems that turn people off from unions. they just want to turn unionism into something more effective because it'll be more top-down and corporate. so they're focusing on issues of standard effectiveness (how to win the most gains, how to build union density, etc.) without looking at deeper problems.------------------------------------------- posted 6:42 AM :: reference link ::
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