fletcher's ponderations

  here's a few think pots ....

i'll comment later
 
return here in two days 


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* What is our analysis of the current 
            domestic and
       international situation in general
      but specifically,
       the situation  facing workers?

       * What changes in the economy 
  and in the process of
       work have taken place
 that affect workers, but also
       affect our abilities to organize, mobilize, and be
       effective? 


       * How do we understand 
the evolution of the U.S.
       political state? 
What does this mean for workers and
       their unions?

       * What do we mean
 when we speak of power for workers? 

       * What other social movements,
 whether progressive or
       reactionary, are rising or declining? 

       * How have U.S.unions practiced 
trade unionism over the last fifty
       years? 
In what manner were there changes
 if any at all
       in this practice 
after Sweeney took over in 1995? 


       * What has worked 
and what has not
 in the last ten
       years? 
Do we have any idea as to why? 


       * What do we need
 from a federation of unions? 
       Specifically:
 How should it make decisions?
 Who should
       be included? 
What is its role in electoral politics
       and legislation? 
 What is its role in organizing? 
       What is its role 
in member education and mobilization?


       * How do we change 
power relations 
in the United
       States?
 What does this mean 
at the national and local
       level?



       * What is the nature 
of international working class
       solidarity 
in the twenty-firstt century? 



       * What are 
the organizational and structural
       implications 
of all of this
 for the union movement?