[MetroActive Features]   Repair Job  picket line Eric Reed  On
the line: With a tentative settlement in the two-week-long UPS
strike reached on Monday, the AFL-CIO claimed "a major victory
for working people" in its first major contract negotiations
under new leadership.  Big labor is putting the move back in the
labor movement  By Todd Gitlin  THURSDAY NIGHT and Friday, Oct.
3 and 4, something rarer than a picture of Dick Morris on the
cover of Time magazine is going to happen in New York. Two
endangered species are going to see what they can do for each
other. Intellectuals of the left, in cahoots with the AFL-CIO
leadership, summon one and all to gather at Columbia University
in what is billed as a "teach-in with the labor movement." The
conjunction is important. It implies cooperation and equality,
not pity.  It's been less than a year since American labor
decided to take the cure, with, of all things, a contested
election. It took the AFL-CIO longer than the erstwhile
Communist regimes of the Soviet empi