>And they could have just gone the individualist professional rout, or they
>could do what they did, which is act like a labor union, seek the support of
>other workers, and mount a collective action.
This is a movement from professional individualism, yes, but not yet to a unifed working class which is how you touted this action.
> But significantly, the Boeing
>engineers, who had an independent union for almost fifty years, voted to
>affiliate with the major AFL-CIO engineering and technical workers union
>last fall. It was largely that affiliation with other union workers that
>showed a retreat from company-only elitism towards a broader commitment to
>shared worker struggle.
This is responsive. And indeed it is a very hopeful sign and opens up the most interesting possibility of joint engineer-technician/machinist actions against Boeing employers in the future. On what issues could such a unified conception of the working class be forged? Yours, Rakesh