Service Industry Unions

[Richard Gibson]

SEIU is run by the gangster who is now running the AFL, John Sweeney. Their
main approach to organizing was to takeover independant unions that had
been organized by rank and filers, and subsume them--and to engage AFSCME
and other public worker unions in turf battles.. That's how they showed
growth. They are not interested in low wage workers because they know the
jobs are unstable, hence so are the dues. The declaration that organizing
health care workers on the west coast is tantamount to the Flint Strike
victory in 1937 indicates Sweeney's bankruptcy.

The UAW, AFT, and otehrs are organizing grad students because, in part, the
leaders of these unions want to guarantee their pensions. The grad students
organized today could easily become the labor bosses of tomorrow--like the
racist Walter Reuther who is their progenitor. The unions still organize
around their typical ABC program--anything but class. The only people the
union bosses know how to fight anymore are their own members, as they
showed most recently in demolishing the Detroit Newspaper strike. And the
union hacks are failing, losing membership, growing dumber by the day,
because the centripetal role of class is out of their reach. 
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>On to something new....best r
Rich Gibson
Program Coordinator of Social Studies
Wayne State University
College of Education
Detroit MI 48202
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.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.