[Marxism] Restructuring in the AFL-CIO

[Joaquín Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        It is *astonishing* to me that the AFL-CIO has a staff of nearly 500
people. 

        What do they do?

        I could understand it back in the Meany days, when the federation
was in charge of scabherding, strikebreaking and keeping out the reds and
the Blacks -- that's real work. 

        But today?

        They spent all of last year pimping for
I-forget-which-multimillionaire old white guy from Yale who belonged to
skulls and bones. And lost to the other guy who was for the war. 

        IF you look *objectively* at the track record of this organization
over the past half century, isn't it about time they imitated the
capitalists on this, and outsourced ALL of the AFL-CIO jobs? 

        The Cubans and Venezuelans are pretty good at this workers interests
stuff, I hear.

        In a way, it is fitting that a septuagenarian never-been is screwing
his own workers to try to keep this post. What a fitting epitaph for
business unionism. Yes, and I do think it is an epitaph. There well may yet
be a rebirth of trade unionism in this country, but I certainly don't expect
it to come from the likes of a Sweeney or a Hoffa or a Raynor.

Joaquín

        


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