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> Unions are back My God, I wish there were establishment figures pushing the unionization narrative but, on the contrary, workplace bargaining remains obscure
by rexpop 4y ago
> Unions are back
My God, I wish there were establishment figures pushing the unionization narrative but, on the contrary, workplace bargaining remains obscure and extremely unsupported by institutions. The workers I know who are organizing do not have "establishment" backing. It's hard even getting business unions to return phonecalls! Labor organizing is a massive, industrious undertaking that's NOT subsidized by established institutions but, rather, by the workers' families on our nights and weekends.
It's absurd to suggest that union efforts—misguided though you made consider them to be—are fueled by anything but the sweat of our own brow. It's flattering, though, that you think labor organizers have accomplished, independently, what appears, to you, heavily subsidized.
- ETH_start 4y agoUnions are a massive cashcow for left-leaning parties, whose policies give the unionized workers a monopoly on private sector labor spending in key industries, e.g. the establishment news media, and public sector spending in the case of public sector unions. See campaign contributions to the Democratic Party by industry in the last election cycle: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/industries?cycle=2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/industries?cy... Unions are fully embedded in the establishment, to the point that the only thing that kills them is the contraction/bankruptcy of the industry they colonize. Look at Detroit: it was the richest city in America in 1950. Within 40 years of the UAW Union taking over the Big Three automakers (membership rose through the 50s and 60s, peaking in 1979), the big automakers have lost their market dominance, and Detroit is a shell of its former self.