[lbo-talk] Fitch on The Split

[Jim Devine]

> 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?

JL: >Sorry to be curt, but I read that as "You can't win, so you might as well
just give up." Well, fuck that.<

It's interesting but Nathan's and Fitch's interpretations seem to be a
matter of glass half-full/half-empty. Nathan sees the Big Split as not
having any serious negative effects on organized labor's fate, while
Fitch sees it has having no important positive effect.

optimist: the glass is half full.
pessimist: the glass is half empty.
realist: it's half a glass of water.
surrealist: it's a cow.

JD