UAW losses in 2000

[Justin Schwartz]

What about the assembly divisions at Honda and Toyota? OK, Toyota is in the 
South, and that is hard, so by your reckoning, and maybe mine too, the union 
ought to go after Honda. The Maryville, Ohio, plant is less than three 
hours' drive from Detroit. So, what's the reason the union doesn't do it? 
--jks


>Any sensible organizer is going to start organizing the folks that are 
>easier
>to organize, to build up your base and momentum. Organizing a lot of small,
>decentralized shops, one by one, is notoriously difficult, in any industry.
>In the auto industry, the parts industry is of strategic importance, but it
>is also going to be the hardest nut to crack. This is a strategic truth 
>that
>will hold true regardless of the way you see it, either in terms of the
>industry wide strength of unionized workers or in terms of union dues.
>
>Leo Casey
>United Federation of Teachers
>260 Park Avenue South
>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
>
>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
>-- Frederick Douglass --
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