[Marxism] SEIU Pres. Remarks Amplify Call for a Million Worker March on Washington October 17th

[Douglas MacDonald <dmacdonald94591@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please note: The Million Worker March scheduled for October 17, 2004 at the 
Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC already has the endorsement of the USA?s 
largest union, the National Education Association with 2.7 million members.  
Mr. Andrew Stern, president of the USA?s second largest union, the Service 
Employees International Union (SEIU with 1.6 million members)  public comments 
lend support to an independent empowerment of the working class, seperate from 
the Democratic party; ndependnet of John Kerry, as well.



We can only hope that through communication and dialogue all endorsing and 
sympathetic community, religious and union organizations including the State of 
North Carolina?s AFL-CIO, various Central Labor Councils, dozens of individual 
union locals, IAC, Answer, Global Exchange and others will be able to 
coordinate and execute a successful start for a new, independent political 
movement for working class empowerment.  Please spread the word, help us 
organize and DONATE TODAY! www.millionworkermarch.org



-Douglas MacDonald

Outreach Committee Million Worker March, ILWU Local 10

925-890-6430



(Please forward to e-mail lists and contacts far and wide)



Unions might be better off with Kerry loss, leader says



http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/07/27/unions_might_be_better_off_with_kerry_loss_leader_says/



By David S. Broder, Washington Post  July 27, 2004



Breaking sharply with the enforced harmony of the Democratic National 
Convention, the president of the largest AFL-CIO union said yesterday that both 
organized labor and the Democratic Party might be better off in the long run if 
Senator John F. Kerry loses the presidential election.





Andrew Stern, head of the 1.6-million-member Service Employees International 
Union, or SEIU, said in an interview with The Washington Post that both the 
party and its longtime ally, the labor movement, are "in deep crisis," devoid 
of new ideas, and working with archaic structures.



Stern contended that another four years of Bush policies might be less damaging 
than the stifling of needed reform he said would occur if Kerry becomes 
president.

Stern's dissatisfaction with the AFL-CIO and the Democratic Party is not new, 
but his decision to voice his frustration on the opening day of a carefully 
scripted convention was an unwelcome surprise to Kerry's convention managers, 
who had been proclaiming their delight at the absence of any internal conflicts.



Speaking of the effort to create new political and union organizations, Stern 
said, "I don't know if it would survive with a Democratic president," because 
Kerry, like Bill Clinton, would use the party for his own political benefit and 
labor leaders would become partners of the new establishment.



"It is a hollow party," Stern said. Later in the day, John Sweeney, AFL-CIO 
president, said Stern's attitude "is not justified." Sweeney said the process 
of change is already underway within labor. "I'm optimistic about the future of 
the Democratic Party," he said.


                
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