AFL-CIO retreats from WTO confrontation

[Tom Lehman]

Regardless of the logic you base your opinion on, and everyone has an
opinion, your all correct as far as I'm concerned.  I've listened to this
type of discussion for 20 some years by Steelworkers and other rank and file
unionists.  It's nothing new guys.  And before that it was something else.

I'm hoping this report about the AFL puling our support is wrong---but---if
it's true it doesn't surprise me.  Everytime there's been an opportunity to
stop this non-sense and really register a protest the key players throw the
game.  All of a sudden they go soft and fat.

If the AFL put the money and muscle into this type of an action; we would
have a hell of a lot more to show for it than the really stupid strawberry
campaign. And you would help a lot more people!  What was it Jeff came up
with $20,000 dollars spent per potential member, plus a busted political
deal.

Trying not to use bad language,

TL

Michael Perelman wrote:


> Doug is correct that globalization per se is not the problem.  The
> problem as I see it is that the WTO offers new levers of power to global
> capital that it would not otherwise have.
>
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>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> Chico, CA 95929
> 530-898-5321
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