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 ================================================================Stefan Wray ================================================================sjw210-AT-is8.nyu.edu 212-998-9004(office), 212-995-4046(fax), 212-898-4608(home) http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray Department of Culture and Communication 239 Green Street, Suite 735, New York, NY 10003-6674 ================================================================ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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