Re: P-9 and meatpacking deunionization (was: The raids against immigrant workers)
On Dec 19, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:
No denying that Ford and GM are in dire shape (Query whether or in
what form Ford will survive as a company or a brand), nonetheless
who can blame the autoworkers for fighting to save whatever they
can of their standard of living, their healthcare and retirement?
Or, should they just surrender and give it all back.
Who can blame them indeed? I also wouldn’t mind being 30 years old
again either - who can blame me for that?
This response embodies exactly what I’m talking about: militant
demands will not make it so. The labor movement and its sympathetic
intellectuals should at least have some semblance of a strategy for
how to deal with the industry’s economic crisis, but I’ve never heard
one.
Doug