Globalization and the American Labor Movement

From Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO. Excerpt:

Corporate driven and fueled globalization is concentrating wealth and constricting freedom.

Duh! Unfortunately, as is typical of the AFL-CIO, this article is all problem and no solution. Since the early days, the AFL-CIO resorts more and more to wimpish do-nothing whining that unions no longer have the right or power to collectively bargain. What's needed to regain such rights is FORCE! Many people died to establish those rights in the first instance, but the AFL-CIO continues to pretend that it will regain those rights by simply educating the public and supporting political campaigns. This is delusional, because wealth can always outspend them. Labor must get aggressive and present a real threat before the holders of wealth will make concessions. Look right now at France. Rather than whine, labor should simply do what's necessary and efficient. That it doesn't do so leads me to wonder whether the AFL-CIO exist mainly to siphon of workers organizational activity, delude them into thinking the AFL-CIO can solve the problem, while the AFL-CIO tacitly ensures workers don't succeed.