USWA's $40m

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Aug 24 07:03:12 PDT 1998


Is that organising plan based on class struggle trade unionism ?

Charles Brown

Detroit


>>> james withrow writes

Half of the money ($20M) is to be used for "organizing plans". I'd be happy to sell them an organizing plan for a mere $300,000. Or on my volume discount, a dozen plans for $1M. A baker's dozen.

I hope I'm wrong to be cynical about these plans. I hope the USWA will be doing more than increasing staff. Really, I hope this plan will make some headway, but, geez....

Representing workers is a very different operation from organizing workers. I'm not sure that any organization can focus on both at the same time.

James in Philly



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