The Chicago Sun-Times on the globalization of the corporate campaign: Marvin Daniels, who spends an average of five hours each workday walking a picket line outside the Congress Plaza Hotel downtown, flew to the Philippines in the last week...[Daniels] was part of a small union delegation planning to scout the business activities of Albert Nasser, a key investor in the Congress, where housekeepers and doormen, among others, have been on strike since last June 15. The delegation also sought to foster ties with Filipino garment factory workers who work for one of Nasser's firms. The trip followed picketing last fall outside Nasser's Manhattan residence, leafletting stores that sell his material in five U.S. cities, arranging a "solidarity" rally at the Manila factory and snooping in Geneva, Switzerland, where he reportedly has a home. "The goal is always to find leverage in as many places as we can, and part of that is driving customers away from the Congress, and part of that is going after Nasser on his own turf," said Clare Fauke, a research analyst at Local 1 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, who also went to the Philippines. As long as capital is organized, labor has to be. And as capital organizes on the global level, labor has to as well.
3/23/2004
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