[lbo-talk] NYT on French unions

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
Nathan wrote:
>My point has been that the unions have been investing in a whole
>range of initiatives in Los
>Angeles for well over a decade and the mass mobilization last week
>was one fruit of those efforts.

-I live in Los Angeles and I'm familiar with the work you're talking
-about.  But this sounds like one of the things Fitch
-criticizes.

How is this at all what Fitch was criticizing?  This was a mass-based 
alliance built over years between the unions, the churches and immigrant 
community organizations.

My problem with Fitch is that there's almost no room in his book to even 
discuss something like the mass mobilizations last week, since they don't 
fit his paradigm of inward-looking, dues-obsessed bureaucrats.

Nathan Newman