On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Joseph Catron writes:
>
>> What prevents the UAW from organizing 93,100 new automotive repairs
>> and maintenance workers? Or 51,100 new motor vehicle dealership
>> workers? (Not to mention 229,000 and 169,300 current ones,
>> respectively.) Why can't CWA and OPEIU team up to organize hundreds
>> of thousands of finance-sector workers? When will the old plant
>> unions notice that pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing isn't
>> going anywhere?
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> I don't know. Why?
Why not bureaucratic inertia and comfortable fatness? Organizing is expensive and troublesome. For a lot of labor leaders, why not just collect a six-figure salary and hope the dues keep coming in until it's time to retire?