Comments on: UAW “Most Pro-Worker Union Ever,” Says Its President http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sunil Sharma http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11335 Sunil Sharma Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:56:27 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11335 Just a reminder that this is a fiction/satire piece. -- S Just a reminder that this is a fiction/satire piece.

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]]> By: HR http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11256 HR Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:08:07 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11256 Unions have been selling out their members big-time since the 70s. The sad thing is, in many cases, members have only themselves to blame. By the early 60s, union workers were doing well, good benefits, wages, and improved working conditions. Then, they lost sight of what brought those benefits. They started considering themselves "middle class", or, worse, "investor class". They quit taking part in day-to-day operation of their unions, trusting union bosses who had begun more clearly identifying with bosses than with workers. The trend was well advanced by the time the monster Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers, with hardly a peep from organized labor. Now, unions are nearly a thing of the past. Management gets everything it wants. It's too damned bad. It doesn't have to be that way. If working people would get involved again, on a grand scale, if those who have unions would take those unions back, and if those without unions would organize, management could be sent packing, along with the current scum who call themselves "congress". There aint enough cops, military, or hired security thugs in the country to stop it, either, if enough are willing to stand up. Unions have been selling out their members big-time since the 70s. The sad thing is, in many cases, members have only themselves to blame. By the early 60s, union workers were doing well, good benefits, wages, and improved working conditions. Then, they lost sight of what brought those benefits. They started considering themselves “middle class”, or, worse, “investor class”. They quit taking part in day-to-day operation of their unions, trusting union bosses who had begun more clearly identifying with bosses than with workers. The trend was well advanced by the time the monster Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers, with hardly a peep from organized labor.

Now, unions are nearly a thing of the past. Management gets everything it wants. It’s too damned bad. It doesn’t have to be that way. If working people would get involved again, on a grand scale, if those who have unions would take those unions back, and if those without unions would organize, management could be sent packing, along with the current scum who call themselves “congress”. There aint enough cops, military, or hired security thugs in the country to stop it, either, if enough are willing to stand up.

]]> By: Deadbeat http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11240 Deadbeat Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:56:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/uaw-%e2%80%9cmost-pro-worker-union-ever%e2%80%9d-says-its-president/#comment-11240 Yet another example of solidarity betrayed. Yet another example of solidarity betrayed.

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