As long as we have union leaders who have never really had to fight for anything; who consider themselves a breed apart from their rank and file, who flatter their rank and file that they are a breed apart from the union-less schmucks in the next shop or delivering their lunches or changing their oil in 5 minutes or watching their kids; …
As long as we have union leaders who have never really had to fight for anything; who consider themselves a breed apart from their rank and file, who flatter their rank and file that they are a breed apart from the union-less schmucks in the next shop or delivering their lunches or changing their oil in 5 minutes or watching their kids; or even having a "class system" within their very own union itself, it's hard to convince people to fight for their rights to organize. Or be active within a union if they have one.
The unions that still exist have had 50+ years to find ways to relate to working people not fortunate enough to live beneath their umbrellas; even as those have gotten smaller and thinner all the time.
They did almost nothing towards that end, even when they had more power than they do today.
A third thing must be found, but the union leaders are at brunch with the Democratic Party; and they can no longer be trusted to look for it.
As long as we have union leaders who have never really had to fight for anything; who consider themselves a breed apart from their rank and file, who flatter their rank and file that they are a breed apart from the union-less schmucks in the next shop or delivering their lunches or changing their oil in 5 minutes or watching their kids; or even having a "class system" within their very own union itself, it's hard to convince people to fight for their rights to organize. Or be active within a union if they have one.
The unions that still exist have had 50+ years to find ways to relate to working people not fortunate enough to live beneath their umbrellas; even as those have gotten smaller and thinner all the time.
They did almost nothing towards that end, even when they had more power than they do today.
A third thing must be found, but the union leaders are at brunch with the Democratic Party; and they can no longer be trusted to look for it.