fletcher speak....no new deals ahead

---- a shirt sleeve report-------


 global exploits
   spell
    no day
      NO WAY 
    NO WHERE 
         can there be 
           another 
              Gomper room  day 

okay i'll buy that 

but he goes on .......


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"To rethink ourselves 
really means that a dialogue 
must open up 
within the trade union movement 
and between the trade union movement
 and other movements

 This dialogue must aim 
to reconceptualize trade unionism

 This reconceptualization 
needs to lead in the direction 
of what I and my colleague 
Fernando Gapasin 
call “social justice unionism.”

 This is about more than organizing
 and it is about more than 
building alliances 
with other sectors of the population.

Social justice unionism 
begins with the assumption 
that the New Deal and the welfare state
 as we once knew it
 are not coming back

 ----- with ya bro ....-------


 At the same time
 the tendency toward barbarism
 endless war
 and pauperization 
for growing numbers 
of people must be halted

-------- whoops 
where's yer army 
comin from compadre? --------

 Thus, the question 
of the future 
of trade unionism 
must be integrally connected 
to a political realignment 
in this country 
and the conscious fight
 for political power

 ------------  a head shot eh? -------------


 It must also be connected 
to a very different way 
of looking at unions 
and other mass organizations 
of the people overseas

-------- as in what ? ------------

 This means that we must repudiate 
traditional US arrogance
 that assumes that all light 
and life 
begins within 
the borders of the USA" 

       ------------ ya so we burn down solidarity house 
 right on !
then what ....?  --------

else where he writes this ...


" The US trade union movement
 has badly needed a debate 
about its own future
 but the culture
 of the US union movement
 generally precludes honest debates"

-------- you bet ------------

 "When individuals 
or groups 
       of individuals 
raise allegedly unpopular positions
or positions critical 
of the leadership
they can often find themselves 
isolated or undermined"

-------- to say the least -----------

" Rather than a free flow
 of constructive ideas
 most union leaders 
surround themselves 
with a protective bubble 
to keep out any “bad news” 
and/or provocative suggestions"

--------- monopolists get away
               with stuff like that --------

 " Thus, 
it should not surprise
 anyone 
that the union movement has
 over time
 become pickled in its own juices"

------- say no more brother --------------

 "With leaders 
 who stay in office 
for what to many feels 
to be an eternity
-------stop you're killin me stop stop ---------


" and with the suppression
 of dissent
 too many of those 
who wish to see change introduced 
are forced out
 or
 as a friend of mine says
 are “beached.”


------------- amen -------------------