Re: P-9 and meatpacking deunionization (was: The raids against immigrant workers)
On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Eric wrote:
Stop caring about GM’s and Ford’s state of fuckedness or
unfuckedness? This tactic of unions strategizing and siding with
capital hasn’t worked out real well for the former, has it?….
This is a very strange turn you are taking here. Sounds like you
are advocating a revival of the postwar capital-labor truce.
No, exactly the opposite. That truce was based on labor renouncing
any intrusion in management; I’m saying that management has proved
itself hopelessly foolish (even from the POV of the stockholders
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=GM&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=&c=%5EGSPC
and the workers need to step in.
I don’t get your position. The workers should just stand back and let
GM & F go under, or outsource them out of jobs? It simply will not to
to make militant noises with no strategy other than a Gompersian
“more!” Or Gompersism for an age of diminished expectations: “the same!”
Doug