[lbo-talk] NYT on French unions

Chuck chuck at mutualaid.org
Wed Mar 29 18:09:09 PST 2006


Nathan Newman wrote:


> Most people in the union movement spend most of their time critiquing what
> unions are doing and how to improve them, but I rarely hear anything
> particularly useful in the latter regard on this list. Partly because folks
> seem so damn ignorant of the legal restraints unions operate under.

The perhaps it is time to turn unions into extralegal entities.

Of course, they'd have to give up their nice union office buildings, staff salaries and other perks. But they'd have more money to organize workers instead of being labor pimps for capitalism.

Chuck



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