[lbo-talk] Fitch on The Split

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Jul 29 14:56:39 PDT 2005


But the UAW is organizing writers, graduate students ...

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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