From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: AUT: Fw: [workersdemocracy] How to organize a community-work based campaign
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:27:17 -0600



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From: "jgabriel55" <jgabriel55-AT-mobile.rogers.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: [workersdemocracy] How to organize a community-work based campaign


> Thanks for the comments Terri.  My concept of a workplace based campaign
is that it's intricately linked to the community.  When I started writing my
master's thesis I was enthralled by the community based campaigns that took
place on the 1930s in St. Louis and San Antonio.  In both those cases very
poor African-American and Latino women organized by going first to community
support organizations and THEN organizing their workplaces.  This gave them
the strength to organize whereas previous workplace based campaigns on both
St. Louis and San Antonio nut processing had been crushed.
>
> My biggest problem with the AFL-CIO is they think within an ever shrinking
box.  The strategies are not creative and responsive to people's needs.  And
in isolated cases like Justice for Janitors when the unions DO figure out
how to motivate people then they screw them over by demanding control of the
organizing process which of course results in shitty contracts and
non-existant representation.
>
> I think we all to think very carefully about how to build community based
groups that people organizing will be able to come to.  That seems to be the
key to building independent unions.
>
> Comradely,
> Jeannette
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