From: obrerist@ptdprolog.net
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 16:59:30 EDT
I just finished reading Miriam Ching Yoon Louie's "Sweatshop Warriors" for a
class I'm taking. Its description of worker's centers set up by immigrant
Korean, Chinese, Thai and Tejana/Chicana women is very inspiring, and made me
aware of a movement I didn't know existed.
However, towards the end of the book, Ms. Louie talks about these movement's
negative experiences with UNITE and te old ILGWU and ACTWU unions. In the
chapter "Just in Time Guerilla Warriors," she writes about a campaign begun
by the Asian Immigrants Workers Association (AIWA), one of the worker's
centers, she writes, "Eventually, the ILGWU/UNITE, the National Labor
Committee, and Globl Exchange used what they obsserved of AIWA's campaign in
their anti-corporate campaigns against Gap, Nike, and Guess, and in
organizing students through Union Summer and United Students Against
Sweatshops" This is the only reference in the book to USAS, and it says that
it was organized by UNITE and in a footnote after this sentence she seems to
be putting USAS in the same boat of working with worker's centers when
expedient and against them when it serves our interests.
Ms. Louie has been touring the country promoting the book, and I wonder if
anyone has read the book or talked to her about USAS and whether she thinks
of us as the youth auxilliary of UNITE, and if she does, how we can dispel
that idea, and address as an organization, the problems she sees with our
approach.
Charlie Hoyt
Moravian Students Against Sweatshops
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