Doug Henwood asked > Can anyone tell me how much influence the End of Work/Jobless Future thesis > has within organized labor - U.S. and the rest of the world? Note sure about this specifically, but the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) here, which is the main central TU body, seems to take a lot of the Reich-like stuff to heart. One of its main arguments against the likes of the anti-union, anti-collective Employment Contracts Act, and government policies in general is that they are aimed at forcing low wages. Instead, it says, they should be aiming for a high-wage high-skill economy. All sounds nice and plausible to the public but tends to be an excuse for inaction and leave the unions representing the lower-skilled in the lurch. Several of them have left the CTU to their own Trade Union Federation (TUF) which has a more activist, protectionist - though very internationalist - view. Bill /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Bill Rosenberg, Acting Director, Centre for Computing and Biometrics, | | P. O. Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(64)(03)3252-811 Fax:(64)(03)3253-865 | \-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
