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Why Won’t the US’s Largest Labor Federation Talk About a General Strike?
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Michael Meeropol
The nfl! If nba stars call for a sports strike
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 6:11 AM Jerry Monaco <monacojerry@...> wrote:
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Jerry Monaco
A few strategic strikes would work wonders --- airline flight attendants, teachers, meat packing plants --- amazon workers --- All you need are transport workers - longshoremen, railroad workers, truckers. Easier said than done of course. On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 10:11 AM Michael Meeropol <mameerop@...> wrote:
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John Reimann
"The current issue of the popular “left” magazine Jacobin has an article 'Why Won't the US's Largest Labor Federation Call for a General Strike?' But the author doesn’t even ask a lot “smaller” of a question: Why have the unions been almost totally missing in action in the whole BLM movement? Nor can we hide behind the inaction of the AFL-CIO; where has the entire union leadership been – from the national level on down to the major local leaders? Yes, there was the Longshore workers Juneteenth West Coast port shutdown, but that predictably was once again a one-and-done action without even the slightest attempt to use it as a springboard to build labor involvement in the various protests. " The answer involves the labor leadership-management collaboration on the job and the labor leadership's links to the Democratic Party in society as a whole. John Reimann “Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook
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Michael Yates
Michael Meeropol wrote : "Michael --- what about some individual unions with
a strong rank and file? ANy hopes there --- such as how the flight attendants forced the end of the last government shutdown?"
Yes, there are a couple unions and some locals that offer some hope. Yet, most of the locals will have to confront the leadership, and that poses severe problems for independent radical action. Not impossible, but difficult. Of course, we should encourage any and all militant actions.
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Michael Meeropol
Michael --- what about some individual unions with a strong rank and file? ANy hopes there --- such as how the flight attendants forced the end of the last government shutdown? (hope springs eternal!!)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:05 PM Michael Yates <mikedjyates@...> wrote:
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Michael Yates
See my article in this month's Monthly Review. I take it that the author of the Jacobin article didn't read it. Par for the course with Jacobin's stable of labor writers, mostly professors or grad students, or real know-nothings like Micah Uetricht. Here is
a link to my essay. Why anyone would even think that Rich Trumka, et. al. would ever do anything really radical is truly beyond me. Sclerosis is too mild a word for the AFL-CIO. I hope the prof who wrote the Jacobin article offers his students just a bit more
depth.
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/
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Michael Meeropol
A few strategic strikes would work wonders --- airline flight attendants, teachers, meat packing plants --- amazon workers --- Just a handful of pressure points ..... Labor leaders have to threaten such actions --- and grass roots folks should be putting pressure on labor leaders to come out with such threats ...
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Mark Lause
At this point, though, Trump's threat not to leave the White House if he loses would place a general strike on the table as part of getting the kind of lackluster corporate Democrat the AFL-CIO loves into the White House. Now that's a paradox that should blow their gaskets.
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Louis Proyect
I guess for the same reason that it doesn't talk about the dictatorship of the proletariat.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/general-strike-afl-cio
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