[lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized?

Roy San Filippo roy at criminalanarchy.com
Thu Jan 20 12:03:25 PST 2005


Chuck0 said:
>You are living in a dream world if you think that big unions can
>accomplish anything. History shows the record of their chronic failure.
>With small radical unions, at least there is the chance that a network
>or movement of radical unions can be built which can't be sold down the
>river by some centralized union with comfy offices in Washington.

Do living wages, health care, paid vacations, and pensions for workers not count as accomplishments?


>I have every right to second guess them! So does anybody else!
>Solidarity doesn't involve complying with every stupid picket or
>protest. And there are sometimes personal reasons, very valid reasons,
>why you have to cross a picket line. There are always exceptions to
>unwritten rules.

Solidarity* Forever! *Some restrictions apply. No promise of actual solidarity guaranteed or implied.



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