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"My question is: Why wouldn't you deal with Occupy's relationship to unions?"
Been there, done that:
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=659
"It is a matter that understanding that for movements like Occupy or the antiwar movement, to grow and succeed beyond a certain point, they must have a relationship with the working class."
Occupy's relationship to the working class is far better and stronger than the socialist left's. When was the last time a union bureaucrat sought our support for anything?
"... unions were involved with Occupy Wall Street from the beginning. Union demonstrators were present at Zuccotti Park within the first ten days of OWS. In fact, unions reached out to OWS before OWS reached out to unions. The Labor Outeach Committee was formed, I think, in late September. The first attempted eviction by Mayor Bloomberg was thwarted by union members."
You'll have to double-check with Jackie Disalvo who started the labor working group on all of that. OWS was taking action in solidarity with the art handlers under her leadership within week one of the encampment: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/23/executioners-in-the-suites/
"I strongly suggest that you start attending some Labor Outreach Committee meetings or meetings of the OWS Labor Alliance. Every Tuesday, Atrium of 60 Wall Street, 6:30."
And add another red to the OWS red ghetto? No thanks.