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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 ::
TAKING WORKING PEOPLE OFF THE PLAYING FIELD By Mark Gruenberg, PAI, ILCA
LAS VEGAS--In the debate over how to revamp the AFL-CIO, someone finally saw the forest for the trees: Rich Trumka.
Because beyond all the details over cutting the number of unions, reducing the federation to 'core functions,' putting more money into organizing vs. putting more money into politics, are two key facts.
One is a fact every union leader at the federation's Executive Council meeting in Las Vegas articulated and agreed on: Moves to revamp the federation are needed to make it a more-effective voice for working men and women nationwide, if not a new 'mass movement' of workers, as some thinkers have urged.------------------------------------------- posted 12:22 PM :: reference link ::
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