[Peace-discuss] 30 Years Ago, The Middle Class Died / a reminder of how Reagan destroyed the unions

[Karen Medina]

Last night, on the train from Seattle to Vancouver BC, Stuart and I
met two inorganic chemistry graduate students from Michigan and we
discussed the GEO.
Three things made them cross their own union's picket line:
* they did not see why their union struck over child care -- after all
anyone who had children during graduate school had made bad mistakes
in their lives
* and THEIR department treats them well
* and they were told that they still had a responsibility to do their jobs

If it did not apply to them, they saw no reason to be in solidarity.

Yikes.

-karen medina