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Sounds like a corporate attack on the most unionized sector remaining in the country. Unions are little democracies in a country that is thoroughly undemocrati

Sounds like a corporate attack on the most unionized sector remaining in the country. Unions are little democracies in a country that is thoroughly undemocratic. The oligarchs would love nothing more than for the entire country to be under their iron grip without question. Ideally, tbqh the entire country should be a "workers' democracy", meaning the people control the country by owning the engines of the economy. That requires very high levels of unionization to even start to pull that off.

ARandomerDude 2y ago
> Look at almost any public scandal in recent years—failing schools in Baltimore, police killings in Minneapolis and Memphis—and you will find public supervisors who, under union controls, have lost basic managerial tools. Democracy is supposed to be a process of accountability. But there’s near-zero accountability in American government—between .01 and .02 percent in most jurisdictions. Two out of 95,000 teachers in Illinois were dismissed annually for poor performance over an 18-year study period. In the decade prior to the killing of George Floyd, of the 2600 police complaints in Minneapolis only 12 merited discipline, of which the most severe was a 40-hour suspension.
- tehjoker 2y ago
  Police unions at least don't count, they need to be smashed. They represent the interests of the traitors to the working class.
TheCowboy 2y ago
I'm fine with private sector unions, but public sectors unions don't seem like they tend to always benefit the public. If you were reading this in good faith, the writer of this article lays out a bunch of points that you cannot simply dismiss as "a corporate attack". It's possible to have both private sector unions as a balance to corporate power, and also rebalance the power public sector unions wield. If you want government solutions to benefit the public, then you have to grapple with the dysfunction we're seeing and find a way to resolve it. Also, private sector unions can't simply vote out their bosses (governors, mayors) every few years if they don't get their way, which is a huge power lever.

ARandomerDude 2y ago

> Look at almost any public scandal in recent years—failing schools in Baltimore, police killings in Minneapolis and Memphis—and you will find public supervisors who, under union controls, have lost basic managerial tools. Democracy is supposed to be a process of accountability. But there’s near-zero accountability in American government—between .01 and .02 percent in most jurisdictions. Two out of 95,000 teachers in Illinois were dismissed annually for poor performance over an 18-year study period. In the decade prior to the killing of George Floyd, of the 2600 police complaints in Minneapolis only 12 merited discipline, of which the most severe was a 40-hour suspension.

tehjoker 2y ago
Police unions at least don't count, they need to be smashed. They represent the interests of the traitors to the working class.

TheCowboy 2y ago

I'm fine with private sector unions, but public sectors unions don't seem like they tend to always benefit the public. If you were reading this in good faith, the writer of this article lays out a bunch of points that you cannot simply dismiss as "a corporate attack". It's possible to have both private sector unions as a balance to corporate power, and also rebalance the power public sector unions wield. If you want government solutions to benefit the public, then you have to grapple with the dysfunction we're seeing and find a way to resolve it. Also, private sector unions can't simply vote out their bosses (governors, mayors) every few years if they don't get their way, which is a huge power lever.