what to do

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 28 11:52:33 PST 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Were unions powerful, well organized, & willing to practice massive
>secondary boycotts, wildcats, etc., worker delegations could do the
>inspection work. Otherwise, no. Unions that don't even have enough power
>to compel the OSHA to do frequent & unannounced inspections on behalf of
>workers, not capitalists, can't be expected to protect worker safety on
>their own.
>
>You need _power_ to compel capitalists to respect workers' need for safe
>workplaces.

Well, yeah, but what's your answer? An appeal to a nonexistent party? The only state around right now is the bourgeois state.

Doug



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