Labor now supports media merger, Net dereg (fwd)

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Sat Jun 15 11:53:34 PDT 2002


On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Nathan Newman wrote:


> This is one of the only unions that has made headway into the expanding
> unionization into the technology sector and you sit pissing on them?

No, the question is legitimate: what *is* US labor's strategy for organizing the service sector?

The reality of corporate mergers is that unions don't have major influence over the process, because they're not the shareholders/rentiers making the decisions. The real issue is how to organize service-workers (retail, high tech, telecom, etc.). CWA has done some fine things in telecom, but it's also clear that noone quite knows that information socialism is going to look like.

My own impression is that the seeds of that socialism are scattered around the high-tech culture, especially the videogame culture. For all its narrative flaws, Metal Gear Solid 2 is amazingly sharp about how the US ruling class rules.

-- Dennis



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list