Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:55:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris <red-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: AUT: Could grad student union affiliate with Dockworkers Union?


please consider the Wobblies/ Industrial Workers of the World which is
fast growing again -- as much outside the US as within -- based on as far
as I can tell a very honourable history of struggling against
work/capitalism

fight the power,
Chris
http://www.iww.org (IWW in general)
http://parsons.iww.org/~ewiu (IWW Education Workers)

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Stefan Wray wrote:

> 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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