It means, in the immortal words of Plunkett of Tammany Hall, "Reformers is Mornin' Glories".
IF TDU is to make itself felt, it is going to have to reset its course, return to building a rank and file base--for far more than the unlikely reform of an AFL union--around principles that go beyond union democracy and rank and file control.
Hoffa still has some legal problems of his own.
And what of the Trumka, Macintee crowd? Are they off the hook? Should we care? best Rich Gibson Program Coordinator of Social Studies Wayne State University College of Education Detroit MI 48202
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.html http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/meap.html
Life travels upward in spirals.
Those who take pains to search the shadows
of the past below us, then, can better judge the
tiny arc up which they climb,
more surely guess the dim
curves of the future above them.