I don't buy the notion Union support of Biden comprises an utter fraud, as you do. If you're saying it is all a fucking sham, a lot of good Union members are a lot dumber than you are, and to me that must be gross exaggeration.
I don't buy the notion Union support of Biden comprises an utter fraud, as you do. If you're saying it is all a fucking sham, a lot of good Union members are a lot dumber than you are, and to me that must be gross exaggeration.
Same. Just look at who he appointed to the dept of labor! And Shawn Fain has certainly thrown union support behind Biden.
OTH busting up the railroad strike was a bone move. I still don't understand the details behind that. What were his incentives for standing against his own stated Position on unions? I have an ongoing love affair with our rail travel system so it was really disappointing to see him fail to stand up for the railway union. I would love to have more details on why that happened.
Simple: Decapitating the only union action that will wield power -- the strike. Withholding the energy and labor all capitalists depend upon is the only weapon labor has. You can have the biggest state-of-the-art factory but if you don't have the workers to flip the switch all you have are big bank loans to pay. Strikes and work slow downs are the only real tool labor has.
Under four years of bumbling Biden management union membership continues to decline, even with industries doing business with the government, which "Scranton Joe" could have done something about.
There has long been a huge gap between most union leadership and workers. I had some hope for Shawn Fain but when he endorsed Biden a year before the election without getting ANYTHING concrete in return for the endorsement he whittled off a lot of his credibility. He says he is supporting a general strike in a couple years when a number of contracts are coming up for negotiation. We'll see. In the meantime I guess American workers and families will just have to keep suffering.
Of course by then the police state will be run by Trump and the Christofascists, so we'll see how effective that will be. The time for action to stop the fascist surge is NOW but, tragically, it looks like labor is not up to the challenge.
I don't buy the notion Union support of Biden comprises an utter fraud, as you do. If you're saying it is all a fucking sham, a lot of good Union members are a lot dumber than you are, and to me that must be gross exaggeration.
Same. Just look at who he appointed to the dept of labor! And Shawn Fain has certainly thrown union support behind Biden.
OTH busting up the railroad strike was a bone move. I still don't understand the details behind that. What were his incentives for standing against his own stated Position on unions? I have an ongoing love affair with our rail travel system so it was really disappointing to see him fail to stand up for the railway union. I would love to have more details on why that happened.
Simple: Decapitating the only union action that will wield power -- the strike. Withholding the energy and labor all capitalists depend upon is the only weapon labor has. You can have the biggest state-of-the-art factory but if you don't have the workers to flip the switch all you have are big bank loans to pay. Strikes and work slow downs are the only real tool labor has.
Under four years of bumbling Biden management union membership continues to decline, even with industries doing business with the government, which "Scranton Joe" could have done something about.
There has long been a huge gap between most union leadership and workers. I had some hope for Shawn Fain but when he endorsed Biden a year before the election without getting ANYTHING concrete in return for the endorsement he whittled off a lot of his credibility. He says he is supporting a general strike in a couple years when a number of contracts are coming up for negotiation. We'll see. In the meantime I guess American workers and families will just have to keep suffering.
Of course by then the police state will be run by Trump and the Christofascists, so we'll see how effective that will be. The time for action to stop the fascist surge is NOW but, tragically, it looks like labor is not up to the challenge.