On Nov 1, 2007 8:14 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Three headed dog bites > > I'm thinking the US auto exec's have purposefully not changed in > response to twenty-five years of sales challenges from companies that > are not as unionized. It's organized at the level of Wall Street. Bust > the auto unions has been the aim of finance-industrial auto capital. The > Big Three auto execs are not so stupid as to have fucked up so bad all > these years. > > CB >
I've often thought that same thing in regard to the de-unionization of supermarkets. With the biggies being more than willing to over-price the staples such as milk and bread, driving customers to the non-union stores like Whole Foods... Trader Joes... often to local 'natural' (whatever THAT means now) stores who, at least locally are manned by college students that aren't making a carreer out of groceries and don't care if there's a union or not. In Santa Cruz f'rinstance, any 7-11 in town has a better price on milk than SafeWay. But about the no longer existing 'auto industry' in the U.S.... There's always the military industrial complex: Ford Engine Powers New Boeing UAV http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DefenseTech/~3/178197925/003828.html Another auto manufacturer.... But I'm SURE you get the drift... The new union on the line will be the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. If there IS a 'union' (little 'u' & quotes intentional) in the US that is 'patriotic' to the high standards of Ward Churchill's Little Eichmann, they are it. No reason for work stoppages or strikes there. It would be unpatriotic, and unnecessary, as those workers enjoy all the largess an industrial despotism has to offer. Leigh "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old."
