How can the Union or Syndicate regain power?

[Taverner]

For a very brief time, the Union had power. In UK and the US, around the late fifties, sixties and 1970 - the Union could fight to keep wages above the living wage.

Then, of course, we know the rest of the story. Reagan, Bush, et cetera....

So how will the Union gain back any power - if possible?

[Riftaxe]

1. Only through money, RFK pretty much broke

the back of organized labor in this country, and it has never recovered.

[county worker]

7. How strange where can I get more about this? Website?

[murdoch]

2. I observed a union rally for the war in Iraq in New York in 2003

The biggest rally supporting a war in Iraq in New York in 2003 was organized by some unions in the AFL-CIO, mostly construction unions. The same thing happened back in the 1970s, supporting the war in Vietnam after the Kent State shootings.

The AFL-CIO was actively involved in the Orwellian named "National Endowment for Democracy" which has acted as a tool of US big business to destroy labor unions and social movements around the world. The NED was heavily involved in the attempted coup by the head of the chamber of commerce head in Venezuela against the government.

Aside from this jingoistic, pro-war attitude, the AFL-CIO has been involved for a long time in preventing blacks from getting many jobs that "belong to white people".

I don't know who supports the AFL-CIO any more except the labor lieutenants, shutting down locals like P-9 which resist wage cuts and the like. I think the only reason the organization hasn't been killed off is the conservatives like to leave it on life support in case any real labor movement begins to develop.

[lonestarnot]

3. So you answered the question, a real labor movement.

And a few national strikes.

[county worker]

6. Where can I read more about this? A website?

[Radical Activist]

8. The AFL-CIO officially opposed the war in Iraq.

The building trades are more conservative unions. But they aren't the entire AFL-CIO.

[Hannah Bell]

4. one big union

[Taverner]

5. Workers of the world Unite indeed!

[Brickbat]

9. Direct action or overturning laws such as Taft-Hartley.

[Radical Activist]

10. If they can't repeal Taft-Hartly with EFCA, then ignore it.

Organize the private sector. It's the only way.

[bobbolink]

11. When people are hurting enough, and willing to come together, rather than everyone for themselves.