[lbo-talk] Unions: Resuscitate or pull the plug?

[Carrol Cox]

It occurs to me that this whole discussion has had a tendency to
duplicate the source of union corruption: an identification of unions
with the current leadership at the national level. I haven't followed it
closely, but has anyone in it discussed union membership as opposed to
union bureaucracy?

Local leadership, even if not very good, is somewhat responsive to
members. And strong (democratic) locals have been, may be again, centers
of opposition to union bureaucracy.

The CIO did not come out of nowhere; it emerged from elements within the
AFL.

Carrol