It was a grand weekend. I have much to share and little time to do it in. There will be more later in the week. I wanted to share this, though, as an example of what people on the Left are sharing currently on book of faces and elsewhere.
It was a grand weekend. I have much to share and little time to do it in. There will be more later in the week. I wanted to share this, though, as an example of what people on the Left are sharing currently on book of faces and elsewhere.
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Nice comic on union busting. Unfortunately, that’s not always the way it pans out, nor is it always that simple.
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A lot of workplace unions (mine included) seem so strike-averse that they don’t even survey the members on the hot-button or controversial issues, and now that union membership is no longer required for any workplace, workers are “opting out” rather than pay into unions they feel don’t represent their interests.
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Union-busters don’t need to send in agent provocateurs to kick off riots during strikes if the union leaders are so unwilling to strike that they’ll go along with whatever management wants and not even ask their members what’s important. How do we “Hold the Line” when there’s no line to hold?
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And then the union leaders wonder why the workers are opting out and keeping their pay. *headdesk*
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(Actually, our union stewards say they know why people are opting out, and it’s nothing to do with dues, even though that’s what always comes up. But they’re also not changing direction and they just keep touting the “wins” without mentioning, let alone discussing, the “losses”.)
Unions stopped being for and about the members decades ago. Now it is all about political power and money.
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There is a reason why dues paying union members disappear en-masse when right to work laws are passed. No more closed shops, no more reason for anyone to pay dues to an organization that is not looking out for the average worker.
Just a note, I don’t support the current state of unions. They are no longer actually UNIONS, and should be abolished imo. At one time, the unions were run by the people IN those unions, and so they truly represented *the people*. That was good. That’s (one reason) why we no longer have children working at age 8, or 18 hour a day, six day a week work weeks. That’s why we have OSHA (which is both good and bad, but that’s another article entirely). I would have supported those unions. I do not support today’s unions.
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I had an acquaintance who’s wife was a union rep. Her job (her ONLY job) was to go to various places and listen to people talk, then tell them what the union was willing to do (ie very little). That’s what she did for a living. I mean, literally it could have been done with an email, but instead, the union was paying her a ridiculously huge salary (in the $120k range, and that was 15 or so years ago, maybe more). I can think of plenty of ways that $120k could be used better than to pay for her.
Good examples.
And, some unions provide a lot of value, most do not. Trade unions can and do provide training, act as a clearinghouse for jobs, etc… The big unions are all about money, and have made themselves useless.
That comic, and the fact it (and similar) are circulating bothers me. A lot.
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It is advertising and marketing in action. Messages like that are placing ideas into heads. Ideas that if a kerfuffle happens in front of a protest, it is the other side staging it. Or the other side will resort to subterfuge to get protestors to riot.
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Give that idea, widespread among a crowd, and you have created a spark. That spark, combined with the tinderbox the US has become over the last year, and we are ready to explode into a hot civil war. Look at all the lies being told about ICE arrests. (kidnapping, holding children hostage, Maryland Dad…) Look at the lies about Charlie Kirk. Look at the constant barrage of Fascist, NAZI, racist…
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One riot where a calm crowd was pushed into a rioting insane mob by some street theater performance and this detente we have between the sides of the political aisle is gone.
Rush used to say unions were money laundering schemes for democrats.
in early 2000s all the union members where I worked had Buck Fush bumper stickers..
I might have mentioned this before- a guy I knew was in an electrical worker union. he was bragging about how great the union was and how if he got hurt the union “would pay off his house truck and motorcycle.. then he got hurt and the union booted him. now last I knew hes on disability and barely kept his house…
oh well.
I generally drive past the IBEW offices to see who I should not vote for. Better than reading tomes of campaign materials.