The Time Is Right For A "National Workers Association"......

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5. some reading: this guy is an old unionist and has some ideas on using the existing union structure

for such an attempt.

i don't know if it would have a good chance of success or not, but maybe food for thought.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022018556


Can we build a new, “bottoms-up,” national labor organization that can supplant the tightly-controlled, do-nothing AFL-CIO?

It won’t be easy, but it can be done. What better example than the Committee of Industrial Organizations (CIO), that seceded from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and went on to organize millions of workers in such major corporations as General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel, Westinghouse, Hormel and others?

To create a new labor federation, we are not starting from scratch. We have many thousands of local unions and some 500 central labor councils, plus 51 state organizations that are already functioning. What we have to do is to reconstruct the new organization so that it is controlled by the membership and not by a group of self-serving international union presidents...

A new labor federation can be established by following the process and guidelines that most institutions have gone through in creating their national organizations. It is fortunate that many labor leaders have lots of know-how about conducting elections and running conventions.

As a first step in forming a national labor federation, it is suggested that in each state, a two-day convention be called, to which each local and state organization can send elected delegates, based on their membership...

http://www.laboreducator.org/broken5.htm


If there were a activist labor org, i'd bet workers would be highly supportive in these times. The republican talking points are losing their believability with the general population as they see their security and incomes decline.