[lbo-talk] ciao, unions

[Joanna]

My knowledge of unions in the U.S. is neither deep nor broad, but my 
sense is that what they fight for, what they're organized to fight for, 
is not the working class, but unions. And sometimes, not even unions, 
but union execs.

So, you have the working class split four ways: union bureaucrats, old 
union members, new union members, non-union members (rest of working 
class). It all just kind of plays out Gould's remark that he does not 
have to fear the working class because he can always get one half to 
kill the other half.

One half could be black; the other, white. One half could be union; the 
other, not. Etc.

Joanna