Interesting...The top is for it, the bottom is for it but the middle could tank it...Its all very 'bootstrappy' isn't it? The people who SHOULD be allowed to vote for a one-person-one-vote system CAN'T...I guess it'll come down to how popular the board members are within their own jurisdictions
"Optimism is a choice so yeah we should all be optimistic."
I am a Teamster veteran of 30 plus years and we need to stop thinking this union is reformed because TDU backed a old guard candidate in Sean O'Brien. My union still has a long way to go when it comes to worker democracy.
Excellent reporting, and very worthwhile to look at the flaws of unions and how we can make them better. I know quite a few people who bring up the corruption that happens in unions (in bad faith) as a reason to condemn all unions or to act as if they aren't the solution to corporate consolidation/power. Of course it's an issue, but even unions with entrenched leadership are more democratic than most corporate structures.
There is an inherent "lesser of two evils" tendency in all democratic institutions. The fundamental failure of democracy is that, to work, it must be representative and not direct, and that invites criticism as to whether it's even democracy: whilst the electorate have a vote on who represents them, they don't have a direct vote on everything that the representative argues in their behalf. In matters of pay equivalence, time off in lieu and on any matter that is not of direct patrimonial interest to the electorate, the representative exercises an authority over those that either never voted for them or that never even possessed a vote for them.
That is the failing with the Electoral College. Those who vote for the president, don't vote for the electoral college, which is somewhere a nonsense that has its own rationale but which only functions in an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation. It only works if it's allowed to work.
"There, it will consider instituting “one member, one vote”—at the request of the union’s president, Sara Nelson"
At the request of the union's PRESIDESNT? That sounds like done deal!
Q: do you feel more hopeful about the labor movement now than you did a year ago?
She is proposing it but the board et al (whose own elections would be subject to the new rule) still have to approve it so it's not a done deal yet.
Optimism is a choice so yeah we should all be optimistic.
Interesting...The top is for it, the bottom is for it but the middle could tank it...Its all very 'bootstrappy' isn't it? The people who SHOULD be allowed to vote for a one-person-one-vote system CAN'T...I guess it'll come down to how popular the board members are within their own jurisdictions
"Optimism is a choice so yeah we should all be optimistic."
I see what you did there
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I am a Teamster veteran of 30 plus years and we need to stop thinking this union is reformed because TDU backed a old guard candidate in Sean O'Brien. My union still has a long way to go when it comes to worker democracy.
Excellent reporting, and very worthwhile to look at the flaws of unions and how we can make them better. I know quite a few people who bring up the corruption that happens in unions (in bad faith) as a reason to condemn all unions or to act as if they aren't the solution to corporate consolidation/power. Of course it's an issue, but even unions with entrenched leadership are more democratic than most corporate structures.
There is an inherent "lesser of two evils" tendency in all democratic institutions. The fundamental failure of democracy is that, to work, it must be representative and not direct, and that invites criticism as to whether it's even democracy: whilst the electorate have a vote on who represents them, they don't have a direct vote on everything that the representative argues in their behalf. In matters of pay equivalence, time off in lieu and on any matter that is not of direct patrimonial interest to the electorate, the representative exercises an authority over those that either never voted for them or that never even possessed a vote for them.
That is the failing with the Electoral College. Those who vote for the president, don't vote for the electoral college, which is somewhere a nonsense that has its own rationale but which only functions in an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation. It only works if it's allowed to work.