[lbo-talk] 400, 000 trade unionists to canvass door to door for Obama?

[wrobert at uci.edu]

My impression is that a lot of this stuff gets negotiating in fairly
sketchy ways.  A lot of times you have staff members going on 'vacation'
to do this sort of work with the understanding that this time will be
compensated with informal vacation time.  At the same time, at least in my
not very representative workplace, there are volunteers who will trust
leadership that the work they are doing is worth doing.  Marv is also
probably right that a lot of rank and file folks will operate from a
lesser evil perspective, but given the nature of the trades, I bet a lot
of this work is done by staff.

robert wood


> A lot of questions unasked by the article. Will union members be paid to
> do the canvasing work? Is the canvasing work voluntary? What about union
> members who are not supporters of the Democratic Party? What will be the
> concurrent privilege for Republican "Super PACs"? Will they be able to
> amass troops in a similar way?
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