http://sutterstrikers.blogs.com/

What I'd love to see is a blog site that's devoted to labor struggles all over the country, where union members can post stories about what's going on at their worksites and within their locals.  That is, not a blog focused on analyzing broad labor issues or internal union politics, but rather, like this Sutter strike blog, one that features the voices of rank-and-file union members, shop stewards and staff organizers describing their experiences in struggles with their employers for worker rights.

Mother Jones would rail at union leadership as much as at management, because she could see that, as their power and prestige grew, they were closer in lifestyle to management than to the workers they purport to represent. So there's nothing about the UFW that stands out as particularly troublesome in its evolution.

The question remains, though, whether it will find fresh ways to re-orient itself to remain relevant to its labor base. If it doesn't, its existence will be threatened and they'll fail to even persist.  I'd say it depends on whether its leaders are too blind or too indifferent to rise to the task. But it also depends on its membership to replace the union's management if it's performance fails such a minimal test.

Since we're basically a one person show - it's hard to keep it up to date - but we have good stuff there.