Organized Labor did not rise up against Capital’s political counter-revolution in ’81 because highly paid Union Fat Cats no longer shared the interests of the workers they represented. It was in the best interests of Union Fat Cats to actually bargain away ‘Solidarity’ itself.
I haven’t read the new ‘Five Year’ contract between UPS and the Teamsters’ self-congratulating Fat Cats, but the fact that it’s a 5 year contract implies that it contains a ‘no strike’ clause. Nothing about the Business Union Model has changed since 1981. The Teamsters once again just bargained away ‘Solidarity’ itself, and are so ‘stupid’ that they are actually elated over having done so.
So… The self-loving Teamsters obviously don’t give a shite about the struggle of the Amazon work force? Oh sure, they’ll have plenty of BS lip-service to give. But ‘Solidarity’? No… They won’t have ANY of that. They won’t have ANY ‘Solidarity’ to give to Amazon (or other) workers because the Teamsters’ Fat Cats just bargained it away.
The entire edifice of Organized Labor sat on its impotent hands in ’81 for that exact same reason. Organized Labor did not rise up to meet the challenge of Capital’s counter-revolution because EVERY union had bargained away ‘Solidarity’ itself. EVERY union was constrained by the ‘no-strike’ clause its Fat Cats had signed.
2023-09-05
An interesting article about unions and crapitalism, but 1 of the commenters really got my attention.
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