well six feet under......

I think that one thing thats essential for rebuilding the power of labor in this country is education and involvement of the general public in a more social movement oriented for of labor organization.

Working people are unable to fight back against the powers that be, because they don't have the background and familiarity in economic to counter the lies of big business.  

Labor needs to provide that background on a social basis.  

What I'm talking about here is a widespread effort to provide populist economic education to the masses using local union halls and other similiar facilities as classrooms to give workers the tools the need to fight back.  

First and foremost of which is instilling class consciousness, and learning the history of our people.  To know the stories of the English Chartists, and why Marx was spot on when he called them "Satanic mills."  And to know that the current dip in labor organization has a parallel in the period between 1880 and 1930.  And tho know that they current situation can change.