Re: [PEN-L] China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Labor Abuse

[Marvin Gandall]

The labour movement and the trade union movement are the same thing - the terms referring to that small and shrinking part of the North American workforce which is organized, which constituted itself as a "movement". Your point about the inherently stratified wider workforce as an obstacle to working class unity is valid, though, and these occupational, race, income, gender, regional, status and other differences have been reflected in the unions.   Waistline wrote:   [...]   The trade union movement is not the labor movement by a long shot. The labor movement cannot but be economically and politically divided as a feature of capitalism or more accurately value production. This division remains true and in force, to a considerable degree, even after the bourgeois property relations has been dismantled.