bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
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> So, in all this, what I've been working on in the back o' me pea brain is
> how this would work. If Cobble's right, then the nexus between employer and
> employee at the point of employment -- is it possible that this is where to
> build a new model for unionizing? Mostly, watching the way recruiters have
> become this broker -- how it's been privatized, etc.
You are describing hiring halls -- as used for a century at the waterfront. in construction. and I believe maritime unions. About 25 years ago I was chatting with an SEIU organizer (also ph.d. in econ from U of Mass (Amherst) who suggested the only way to organize fast food places was through hiring halls.
Carrol