. . . Given this past experience, I think that a new type of labor movement
> will have to come out of an initiative to organize the unorganized --
> which should split the AFL-CIO, taking radical unionists along with
> it -- before the next exodus. I'm afraid this type of initiative is
> unlikely to originate in the Nader/Green combo as it is constituted
> now. Yoshie
For all their faults, I don't doubt the AFL would be thrilled to see the unorganized organized, preferably while affiliating with the AFL. They would not be thrilled to see new unions consorting with the likes of Ralph Nader, however, or supporting rank-and-file movements in their own affiliates.
mbs