File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9712, message 24


Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 00:25:18 -0500
From: Stefan Wray <sjw210-AT-is8.nyu.edu>
Subject: AUT: Could grad student union affiliate with Dockworkers Union?


Folks,

In a graduate student organizers' search for a big international union with
which to affiliate, I don't think that anyone considered the Dockworkers
Union (International Longshoremen(what is correct full name?))Is there a
reason for this? Would the Dockworkers have anything to do with academic
labor? Or is that out of the question? What if we tell them that we move
intellectual cargo? I'm sort of half kidding. But it is not an unreasonable
claim to state that dockworkers and graduate students are both moving
commodities. One is just in a more solid form and requires large ships. In
particular the Liverpool Dockworkers use of the Internet to circulate
struggle is what makes me curious as to whether an affiliation with them
could make sense. Does anyone have expertise in this area, or am I off the
map with this one?

- Stefan
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