ALPA, moreover, has already accepted in large measure the type of two-tier wage structure that the American pilots are resisting. Not a few top union bureaucrats cursed the American pilots for disrupting their own travel plans. They were on their way last week to Miami Beach, one of American Airlines' prime destinations, to attend the annual winter retreat of the AFL-CIO Executive Council at the Fountainbleau Hotel. It is only a matter of time before broader sections of the working class decide to defy the likes of Kendall. The militant resistance of the working class must be guided by a new political strategy.
Workers have to recognize that they have no friends in either big business party.
They must build their own party, fighting for a program that advances the independent interests of the working class and does not bow to the dictates of the capitalist market. The WSWS invites your comments. Please send e-mail .