And what about the idea of accepting members who are not currently employed in industry at all, as in Europe.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> this is a very useful contribution and an improvement in the tone. But
> I think the people are losing the forest (the big picture) in the
> trees (Fitch's journalistic shortcomings). What do people think of the
> idea that the truncated AFL-CIO can't expand because it represents
> relatively high-wage workers in stagnant employment sectors -- and
> that the SEIU-led C2W coalition can't expand because the resistance to
> it is so strong? That seemed to be Fitch's main point, not the
> trashing of Stern.
>
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