The governement is not entirely owned by corporations. We still do vote, you know, however flimsy that is. There is the potential at least for people to influence the government, and there is no potential for people to influence corporations. There used to be, when corporations were chartered very limited entities, then people had full rights to ban together and dissolve. We do have sometimes theoretical and sometimes actual control of governement.
Unions are a very important part of the political process.
Increasingly we want to see more globalisation of unions. I think it is the only way . With the global economy we can have some accountability for corporate actions against labor and against labor organising. Labor has been re-envigorated and the unions are showing more political power then they have in the previous ten or fifteen years, certainly throughout the eigthies and late seventies. We at RTMark would like to support unions as much as possible, allthough we are not directly involved with union politics.