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Like democracies, unions will exploit the people in them if the people in them do not organize and agitate actively for their own interests. Like democracies,
by frabbit 7y ago
Like democracies, unions will exploit the people in them if the people in them do not organize and agitate actively for their own interests.
Like democracies, unions suck, but they are not as bad as the alternative -- unless you're the boss or the generalissimo.
- moron4hire 7y agoAre you saying that union members need to... unionize against their union? It's all unions, all the way down.
- morelisp 7y agoNon-ironically, yes, and many union members in the US agree. Even before COVID-19, there were high-profile wildcat strikes this year, and it's only accelerating now.
- frabbit 7y agoEssentially yes. Unions have varying levels of active members which sometimes leads to a self-interested bureaucracy acting against the wishes of the membership. See for instance this recent well-known example: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/bernie-sanders-nevada-caucus-culinary-union https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/bernie-san... There is nothing magic about unions or democracy which means that they guarantee good outcomes. You have to work at it and be involved. In fact everyone has to.
- koheripbal 7y agoHaving a union is literally worse than not having one at all. ...unless people are literally dying in the factory. Unions were made for worker safety and made sense THEN - not today.
- frabbit 7y agoPeople are dying due to lack of investment of corporate profits in health care. I cannot believe you need this pointed out to you right now. In other shocking news today's capitalists don't wear top-hats and drive around in Rolls Royces: they wear hoodies and drive modest cars.