Signs of resurgence
The Labor Notes conference met following the first Democratic Presidential victory for over ten years. Some union leaders hope for a return to days of old; a cosy relationship between the bureaucracy and the Democratic administration. The professional union haters may have gone but the bureaucracy will not have the influence they once might have enjoyed.
International Viewpoint #247 July 1993 industry, airlines, building trades, health care, public transportation, postal service and so on, as well as for labor educators, union organisers, lawyers, union caucuses, industrial conversion/community-labor organisations, Haitian solidarity, and other
Much of the union rank and file will be harbouring illusions in the
Democrats as well. Our correspondent reports on how the conference helped activists tackle the new situation.
social and political protest groups.
A "People of Color Caucus" was held.
The speakers were Ron Daniels, of Campaign for a New Tomorrow, and Matt
McCarten, leader, of the NewLabour Party