Not to my knowledge Doug. I think that what happen...

2008-05-05T13:37:00.000-04:00

Not to my knowledge Doug. I think that what happened here is something we might have to get used to – militancy which emerges "spontaneously" because of a complex conjuncture of factors (often a reprieve, momentary or otherwise, from the long years of attacks on wages and conditions), but in a context where unionism has become dominated by a very conservative collective bargaining routine. That doesn't mean that the union leaders are sell-outs or reactionary. But the long years of routinism do not prepare people well for the sharp demands of an open confrontation with management.

We all need to re-discover some old classics from an earlier era. I mentioned one in the post - Jameson's study of the Canadian working class movement in the 1960s. It is very dry -- and superb. Some of the best material is in French – Les Travailleurs contre l'État bourgeois is a classic.

Thanks for writing this Paul. I had trouble trying...

2008-05-05T10:10:00.000-04:00

Thanks for writing this Paul. I had trouble trying to figure out what was going on with the strike. All I got was TV news commentators going into hysterics.

I was wondering if there is any rank-and-file network within the ATU? Were any of the executive, including Kinnear, elected through some sort of rank-and-file or left campaign?

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Not to my knowledge Doug. I think that what happen...

Thanks for writing this Paul. I had trouble trying...