Service Industry Unions

frances bolton fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Tue Apr 20 11:23:13 PDT 1999


El Jefe writes:


>Because they're very difficult to organize and because low-wage workers
>can't pay big dues. That last point is rarely talked about, but several
>people have told me that the UAW has shied away from organizing relatively
>low-wage workers in the auto parts industry because there's no financial
>payoff

So why are they going after the even-more-poorly-paid TAs? Publicity value?

frances



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