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Ken Burch

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4. Well, unions stopped because they started getting scared of the rank-and-file learning too much.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 06:47 AM
Feb 2013

Workers with information are likely to be more demanding and more radical, and very few union leaders want that...most of them are still, unfortunately, in the George Meany "pork chopper" mode of union strategy and purpose.

But yes, I am drawing from those ideas...also from the anarchist notion(not that I'm necessarily an anarchist, but they did have good tactical ideas on some things and an interesting analysis)of mutual assistance.

It may be that, for the time being, helping each other will be the only help we get.

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