>The article on the union drive at Mc'ds was excellent. I grew up,live and
>work in Squamish where the union drive is taking place. Squamish(pop.
>12,000) is a union town bar none. The townscouncil contains mostly
>socialists and the union density is very high, i would estimate that about
>75% of the jobs here are union. We has an excellent demo here this past
>weekend in support of the youngsters at Mcdonalds. Some council members gave
>speechs. The Mc'ds here is kinda unique in that it is privately owned by a
>single individual( the appropriately named Paul Savage.) and because of its
>proximity to the highway to Whistler(N.America's premier ski resort) is one
>of, if not the, highest volume Mcdonald's in all of N.America( i don't have
>the stats.) When Mcdonald Corp, realized just how profitable this outlet
>was, it attempted to buy it back. Savage refused.
>There will be no intimidation here. If the author of the article is around,
>i can send her some press clippings from the local rag as well as any other
>information i can drum up(if she's interested.)
Liza Featherstone is on this list, and I hope she's reading all these good things people are saying about her piece!
When I was up in Vancouver, BC, last week, I spoke to the Trade Union Research Bureau. Once again I was struck by how different a place Canada is from the U.S., despite similar appearances. It's hard to imagine a comparable group of unionists in the U.S. who'd be as sharp politically and intellectually as this Vancouver group was. We even discussed Brenner's NLR article for a bit. In the U.S., the discussion probably would have been about who's on the verge of indictment.
Doug