Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England Baptist Hospital, the workers sit at different tables according to their jobs. Lisa said that supervisors often questioned workers who switched tables. The different color uniforms workers wear help the supervisor keep an eye on who's mixing with whom...
Some people consider working with unions a sell-out since it implies an acceptance of the wage system and is incompatible with workers control and reform movements. Lisa disagrees. "To work for revolutionary socialism is to bypass too many steps and to leave people with too many doubts," Lisa said. "A lot of people have ideals but have few ideas of how to get there...
...Lisa considers herself a Marxist--"but I'm not quite sure what brand." In addition, she does not consider revolutionary ideals incompatible with the labor movement. "People like George Meany really don't represent most workers or most trade union officials...
UNIONIZING SERVICE employees offers opportunities other unionizing efforts don't. Lisa attributes this to the close community of interests that the hospital aides share with the patients. This is true especially at Boston City Hospital where most of the workers come from the community, Lisa explained. Because service employees can't increase their productivity and they feel the inflation squeeze the tightest, they are potentially more radical than commodity producers...
Some organizers capitalize on this. Lisa told of her disconcerting involvement with two workers from the Progressive Labor party. The workers interrupted a union meeting and requested that the organizer, Lisa, hand the leadership of the meeting over to the workers. Lisa agreed. Within an hour the workers from PL were spouting party doctrine and had taken complete control of the meeting, which angered many of the other workers...