I think in my union there's growing frustration. There's definite interest in getting away from this slavery to the Democratic Party, when they always turn around and kick us in the ass. I think it's going to be slow, but then suddenly we're going to turn a corner. I've gotten about 10 stewards to sign up to go to the convention in Pittsburgh. You know how union conventions usually are - they're like a production number.
Nobody gets to speak up or anything.
And I think they'll find this very exciting, and I hope they carry that excitement back to the shop. I think the idea of institutionalizing the Labor Party within the unions is good - people can report at every executive board meeting about their progress in organizing and so forth. That will help remove that air of illegitimacy that seems to keep hanging over us. We have some young people here in the Labor Party, recent college grads, and they're great, they have lots of energy and enthusiasm. They haven't been through the grind, so they think it's easy to stand up to the boss and tell him to go stick his head in the oven.