I found this on the marxism list -- does anyone on Pen-L have more details? >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 23:12:06 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Scott Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: geography of the working class revisited >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >At the risk of the screams that will ensue, tonight there is news of an >extremely important development in the US labor movement. I believe it will >be announced tomorrow (7/27/95) in the mass media. The USWA (Steelworkers), >the IAM (machinists) and the UAW (auto) will announce merger - it is unclear >but it sounds as if the UMWA (miners) are also committed to the merger in >the near future. > >I believe this will create one of the largest metal workers union in the >world. It will certainly be the largest union in the US. Along with the news >comes some low key rumors that the trend will continue in other industries >(dare I say it, including public workers). BTW all the garment and textile >workers are now in one union (UNITE). The - on again, off again - merger >talks between AFT and NEA (teachers) are on again and making progress. There >are other unions also moving in this direction but not yet publically. > >This monday there will be a huge rally for the Sweeny reform slate in the >AFL-CIO in Chicago and on Tuesday, Lane Kirkland will offically be removed >(he calls it retiring - 'but the pressures the thing wherein we've changed >the conscience of the king'). Important new orgainizing strategies are being >developed for reorganizing the old and new mass production industries. It >won't be a simple reenactment of the CIO days, but something at a higher >level is in birth, me 'earties. Strap on those running shoes and organizers >head gear the battle is being joined. ...'for the wheels just in spin and >there's no telling who that's it naming. But the losers now will be later to >win, for the times they are a changing.' It's going to be time for Marxists >and radicals in the US to put up or shut up. Doesn't it just make the cynics >want to puke. > >Ah well... so much for those tired old worn out class struggle >concepts...... shit maybe Marx and Lenin were right after all...<deadpan>. >Besides this is all pretty tame stuff with no big reference work or experts >to refer to....can't be happening...<grin>. Give it time, not right away, >but this thing just might even rock some in academia....praise the laptops. > >Scott > > > > --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- > > *************** Teresa Amott Associate Professor Dept. of Economics Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 717/524-1652 (w) 717/524-3760 (fax)
