> Saying that there has been no change at the AFL-CIO is not at all true in
> the first place, but even though it isn't, the significance of those changes
> is minimal so long as most of the affiliates remain backward. A precious few
> of the international unions (and a precious few local unions in other
> internationals) are breaking new ground and getting aggressive with
> organizing, corporate campaigns, and political program. (Needless to say the
> leaders of these unions are not dumb, so they also recognize the necessity
> of defeating reaction on election day, which is why the clueless bleatings
> of people like Chuck Munson who have never organized workers ever in their
> lives sound so ineffably stupid.) But something tells me that if these
> unions ever led an attempt to remake the labor movement in a more militant
> image, and tried to clear out the backward time-servers and the lazy staff
> and local officers ensconced in their sinecures, we would hear bleatings
> from CounterPunch, Labor Notes, and people like Munson about how it was all
> an "undemocratic" coup against "local control" and "rank-and-file
> democracy."
Thanks for the confirmation that my comments were right on target.
Never organized workers in my life? That shows how little you know about me!
ChuckO