Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: Why Foucault is worth discussing


Louis (P) writes:  

>All through the United States, there are thousands of people like 
>Catherine who have become deeply involved in strikes of university 
>workers. Out in New Haven, Connecticut there has been fierce labor 
>resistance to the efforts of Yale administrators to phase out full-time 
>jobs with contract labor. I was out at a big labor rally there a couple of 
>months ago and was amazed by the broad support these workers had 
>won, including a substantial delegation of coal miners from 
>Appalachia.


Louis (G):  Louis (P) is absolutely right about the changing nature of the
union movement here in the US,  but I would be remiss if I didn't argue
again that racism is endemic not only in the construction trades but
throughout the labor bureaucracy,  and at all levels.    There is still of
course a great gap to be closed between people like "Catherine" and those
who wield real power within organized labor.    The same people who are
giving Clinton and the Democrats $35 mllion dollars of our money.




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