I don't disagree the AFL-CIO has more resources. Way more resources. But that also comes with its own problems, as you, with your repeated calls for some kind of "post unionism" must also realize. At least you referred your friend to a real union and not to some gost of a "post leftist post-union," which you have repeatedly argued for on the list.
In short, there obviously needs to be som kind of radical labor - revolutionary labor - alternative to the AFL-CIO. I'm all ears. What are your thoughts?
The IWW does have its share of internal problems (and helping out the very real problems of ACORN workers wasn't, is not, and has never been chickenshit - no one in the IWW can help it if workers at a non-profit want to form a union in the IWW, and they *won't* be turned away just because they happen to be working at one).
The lack of funds or "resources" problem is circular: the IWW doesn't have resources, so it doesn't get member. The IWW doesn't get members, so thereby it doesn't get resources. In the long run, maybe the IWW isn't the answer. But SOME kind of revolutionary *labor* based movement must be.
Brian
--
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche