Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:23:29 -0700
To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu
From: Fernando Gapasin <fgapasin@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Reviving a Local
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980720100324.00a27750@mail.wm.edu>
Dear Cindy:

	I only have time right now to let you know that there are some scholars
and activists who are working on this exact question.  Please contact me so
that I can get more information.  I teach at UCLA.  I'm at the UCLA center
for labor research and education.

					Fernando Gapasin


At 10:03 AM 7/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm a member of the Tidewater Labor Support Coalition.  We recently got a
>call from the president of a moribund union local, asking for advice as to
>how to revive the membership's interest.  He has tried providing food and
>drink at meetings to no avail.  Can anyone suggest strategies that have
>worked in other places (we're in Eastern Virginia).  I am not identifying
>the name or nature of the union, so as not to notify the company that it's
>union is dormant.  
>
>Cindy Hahamovitch
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