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Biden Cancels Speech to Teachers After Union’s Staff Strikes
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What sucks is that in this economy, employers know that they can get scabs to come in at like a dollar more an hour—union be damned.
We need to get back to where employers feared, or at least listened to, unions and their power of collective bargaining. They’ve done an amazing job of gutting unions, and will not stop until they are made illegal.
You certainly aren’t wrong, but.. at least in my area (and this is with state-level laws that fucking decimated union power), unions are relatively well respected by the population at large, because most of us have some experience with them (big trades area), and they are growing, rather than shrinking, despite having their legs cut off at the knee.
Despite being a super conservative and heavily gerrymandered area, our major trade unions (pipefitters, construction, metalworkers, electricians, etc.) never went away, much as the state (for the past 15 or so years) would have liked otherwise. And it’s making a big resurgence; there are tons of manufacturing plants near me and a lot of them are part of or bound by the unions (not just their workplace, but like regional unions)
I hope the trend continues! We need more collective action in our society. We need unions for non-tradespeople, and we don’t have any of those.. but at least the trade unions are unshakeable, and that’s a good gateway for the rest of us.
That’s good to hear. I have first hand experience with manufacturing being part of a regional union. Unfortunately, we were UAW in name only. We were lucky during the strike, the plant we supplied did not strike. The other GM plant in my area went on strike. Anyone that supplied them laid off all of the workers. Where I live, that is $362 per week (you have to file for unemployment). That barely covered rent. Forget about gas, food, the light bill, and medicine.
Without us, GM would have no engines to put in their cars. But the UAW doesn’t look out for the “little guy”.
Sorry, I’ve got skin in the game, and it frustrates me to know end that we didn’t receive ANY of the protections that the GM workers did.
Yeah, I’m jaded. But I still know that strong unions are necessary for the workers to force management to listen.
Man, that sucks that your shop union didn’t stand with the rest.
At any rate: solidarity forever ✊