"Workers are fed up"

[Dddddd0814 at aol.com]

> I disagree with the "obvious" part of this assertion. What *is* obvious is 
> that the AFL-CIO is a corrupt bureaucracy, representatives of the 
Democratic 
> Party within labor rather than vice-versa. 
"Not obvious at all. The AFL-CIO is a coalition which has limited power, 
but the muscle is with the individual unions, and some of those unions are 
damn good at organizing/mobilization and getting better all the time. I'm 
utterly cynical about the US one-party-with-two-wings-state, but there are 
genuinely hopeful things happening with the union movement today. The 
insurrection against the Party of Wall Street starts with rebuilding 
the labor movement. 
-- Dennis"

This is exactly my point. Many members within unions are doing amazing 
things, and corrupt leaderships have already been ousted from many. The SEIU 
here in Boston, in the news lately what with the janitors' strike, is a good 
example of this. The next step would be to get a majority in the union to be 
pro-Labor Party and break the codependent relationship with the Democrats. 
The point is that these unions are already undergoing the beginnings of a 
transformation while folks like Chuck make declarations, dogmatic and devoid 
of any real analysis, that unions are simply "pointless".

-- David