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the unions tend to have an effect in favor of union’s leadership
by option 7y ago
the unions tend to have an effect in favor of union’s leadership
- refurb 7y agoYup. Often forming a union just replaces self-serving management with self-serving union leadership. Nothing like those union leaders making $300k per year!
- Despegar 7y ago$300k a year doesn't seem like much to pay for union leadership if it covered a large enough number of workers. It might be expensive on first glance, but it might be more expensive to not negotiate collectively.
- option 7y agoif workers want to self-organize, why don’t they do exactly that and start a rival business?
- arglebarnacle 7y agoYeah, but unlike management, you can start an opposition caucus in your union, do organizing, win an election, and reform bad union leadership. We just have such low awareness in the US about what unions are and how they work that we take self-serving, collaborationist, timid union leadership as a fact instead of something we can and should urgently struggle to change.
- option 7y agomy parents had to be part of the union (USSR, so no choice). Union leaders decide who goes on vacation, when and where (e.g. paid trips to beautiful Crimea). Also, of course, who is paid what amount. Of course, if you aren’t relative/friend of union leaders you get none of the perks. f@&&k that
- anigbrowl 7y agoOh well, it worked out badly in one context so that means it can never work in any context. On the other hand, when capitalism works out badly for people that's just how things are and nobody is to blame. /s
- slothtrop 7y agoThey're nominated, voted as reps. Shouldn't be extra money in it.