12/3/2013

There needs to be some connection between the big issues of the day and the individual worker/citizen.

Workers are squeezed between the demands of the international market (competitive wages, etc) and their own demands of subsistence.

The union leader is in some ways a nexus between the individual worker and the government or national confederation.  Yet the union leader who cannot involve his/her members in the movement

How to get workers to

Taco stands.  How do workers at the ground level, the self-employed, the independent contractors, what is there work?  how do they view themselves?  What's the point of that work (ie survival versus career)?  They are the bottom of the system, not even fully integrated into the capitalistic market, in the shadow economy (more or less).