Labor Organizers (was Re: Wobblies)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 17 19:59:41 PST 2000


Kelley wrote:
>ittle more on our knee jerk reactions regarding the generation gap. i cut
>my teeth on labor activism, such as it was. and i got burned in the
>process, feeling entirely alienated by hoity toity professional organizers
>and marxists who never did a day's hard labor in their life

It's my understanding that "professional" labor organizers tend to put in long hours & get paid very badly -- at least the ones I know. I have yet to meet any "hoity toity" ones. What's the median wage for labor organizers?

Yoshie



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