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[calibrator]

What all “uneducatedâ€￾ union members should read. Kind of puts Corporate America and labor on the same playing field doesn’t it. Using the “uneducatedâ€￾ to further their personal gains and political agendas whether the membership likes it or not. So when reading and shouting how mean and nasty Corporate America is, and they are, don’t forget to look in your own back yard as well.
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[Philjr]

YOUR POINT IS?

 

[openview]

It's a business within a business. Its found a niche just like consultants, outsourcing, external vendors, etc.

 

[diogenes]

Chavez - hardly an unbiased source.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0517-06.htm

 

[Tim Nelson]

What all “uneducatedâ€￾ union members should read. Kind of puts Corporate America and labor on the same playing field doesn’t it. Using the “uneducatedâ€￾ to further their personal gains and political agendas whether the membership likes it or not. So when reading and shouting how mean and nasty Corporate America is, and they are, don’t forget to look in your own back yard as well.
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[post="282997"][/post]​

The American working men and women are getting pimped and they know it that is why the AFLCIO membership continues to drop. Trying to force the boy scouts to admit homesexuals never helped the working men nor has it furthered the opportunity to organize more workers. Such politics should lay outside the scope of negotiations, organizing or other spending of the dues of the hard working men and women. IMO, Sweeney promotes far left ranging political issues with dues payors money to further his political beliefs. My understanding is that Sweeney is a member or has been a member of the largest socialist organization in the US, the Democratic Socialists of America. There ya go.
But overall, it just isn't a problem with the AFLCIO. Unions on the whole have seen how apathetic the working class has become and end up pimping the members just as bad as the companies do. It's called business unionism.
The model must change and it must change by building a paradigm that gives workers ownership in the union.

 

[N628AU]

It's a great read, and 700UW, it is available at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library so you don't have to spring to buy it.

 

[700UW]

Sorry dont live in Mecklenburg.

And why don't you go read Confessions of a Union Buster by Marty Levitt.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
With compelling vigor and rich detail, Levitt, writing with freelancer Conrow, tells the tale of his rise to union-busting fame from 1969-1988 and his equally dramatic change of heart. Now a consultant advising unions on how to bust the union busters, Levitt says that he is baring his sins both for personal reasons and so that former colleagues will have nothing further with which to discredit him. He portrays himself and his fellow union busters as cynical and contemptuous of workers who try to organize. Using manipulation and propaganda, the busters wear down the union organizers. Levitt's union busters are repulsively slick, preying on the fears and purses of the companies that hire them. The details of Levitt's descent into alcoholism seem prosaic compared to the descriptions of the many union avoidance campaigns he masterminded, even if it was 12-step remorse and humility that provided the motivation for this confessional. His bold story is timely, given current national efforts to reform labor laws.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Levitt writes this autobiographical account of a "union buster" from the perspective of one who now sees that his career was destructive to management, employees, and businesses in general. Levitt began his career in 1969 at the age of 25 with a position as a labor management consultant. By 1987, when he decided he could no longer continue his career, he had orchestrated over 200 antiunion campaigns. Today Levitt speaks to unions to inform them of the tactics he and other management consultants use against labor. Mixed in with his story of union busting are Levitt's problems with alcohol, money, and his marriage. This book is of interest as a first-person account of someone involved in labor conflict and should be considered for large public and academic libraries with labor history collections.
- Linda McEwan, Elgin Community Coll. , Ill.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc

 

[calibrator]

Chavez - hardly an unbiased source.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0517-06.htm

[post="283063"][/post]​

What's the difference what she thinks believes or says…..Hmmm

Just like we read adnauseam on here...facts are facts...Uneducated on and on....the unions are made up of humans, fallen corrupt humans and they will and do act accordingly. Becoming an apologist for them makes one look foolish, sort of like what hush bimball does three hours daily every weekday.

 

[diogenes]

There is a difference between being an apologist for a specific union ( I am not), and the need for unions (I don't apologise for that).

Unions, as we know them, certainly must adjust. It appears momentum is building to do so.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflas..._4395_db016.htm


OTOH, it is a reality that GOP activists, of which Chavez is certainly one of, are salivating that labor falls into disarray.

I am rooting for unions to change the current way of doing business, and come back stronger than ever.

 

[Tim Nelson]

There is a difference between being an apologist for a specific union ( I am not), and the need for unions (I don't apologise for that).

Unions, as we know them, certainly must adjust. It appears momentum is building to do so.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflas..._4395_db016.htm
OTOH, it is a reality that GOP activists, of which Chavez is certainly one of, are salivating that labor falls into disarray.

I am rooting for unions to change the current way of doing business, and come back stronger than ever.

[post="283281"][/post]​

I don't think they have a clue as to how to do that, ie., come back stronger.

Let's not blame Bush or GOP activist for this though. The GOP would be tons more restricted if workers were stronger. Of course, the far left would lose a friend if working men and women united for themselves as opposed to the extreme left issues labor has stuck to like glue. It's not about the boy scouts, or RoevWade, it's about the working class.

regards,

 

[diogenes]

Certainly, the future course of labor is in the hands of working folks - apathy or activism?

Certainly, the GOP will take any advantage of labor weakness - life ain't beanbag.

If labor is to have meaningful reform, it will have to come from the grass roots, which I think we both will agree, is not the current SOP.

My original point, that Chavez is as partisan as Carville, remains, and folks should be aware that she is not a neutral commentator.

 

[calibrator]

Certainly, the future course of labor is in the hands of working folks - apathy or activism?

Certainly, the GOP will take any advantage of labor weakness - life ain't beanbag.

If labor is to have meaningful reform, it will have to come from the grass roots, which I think we both will agree, is not the current SOP.

My original point, that Chavez is as partisan as Carville, remains, and folks should be aware that she is not a neutral commentator.

[post="283323"][/post]​

Neutral commentator or not, and I agree she is not, but like Tim points out, placing the boy scouts and RoevWade into the fold only weakens and not strengthens the union cause. Personally, I am one million percent against abortion. I think gays are freaks and should be exterminated as well as all other sub humans diseased species’ crawling around and infecting innocents...but so what! Labor wrapped itself around something most moral sane people don't want to embrace, as per Tim's comments which are dead on. Unions are finished, look no further than China to see what happens when they fail to unite.

 

[Bob Owens]

There is a difference between being an apologist for a specific union ( I am not), and the need for unions (I don't apologise for that).

Unions, as we know them, certainly must adjust. It appears momentum is building to do so.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflas..._4395_db016.htm
OTOH, it is a reality that GOP activists, of which Chavez is certainly one of, are salivating that labor falls into disarray.

I am rooting for unions to change the current way of doing business, and come back stronger than ever.

[post="283281"][/post]​

Any of the Republicans with half a brain will not see the split as a good thing. The status quo has provided them with a labor movement that may grumble, but still tells their members to report to work under any conditions. With most of labor under the AFL-CIO they faced a neutered labor movement. Sure Labor supported the Democrats but the Republicans found that they did not need the nod from the AFL-CIO. So they did not need their votes and they did not have to worry that labor would disrupt their plans for the economy. So they simply ignored Labor.

The emergence of a rival coalition, well funded and very big, founded on the principle to reform the movement, can only mean one thing-instability. Instability will lead to disruption as unions resort to the only effective means of making gains-withdrawing their labor. Now there will be true competition for the workers, organizations that compete for workers by showing what belonging to their organization can do for them,instead of having the workers compete in a race to the bottom within organizations that blame them for accepting bad deals that they urged them to accept.

When unions disrupt the plans of the elite, they can no longer be ignored.

The split of the AFL-CIO could very well be the best thing that ever happened to the labor movement. Despite the pledge not to raid, airline workers from every airline should contact the Teamsters organizing department asking them to save them from their company unions. Going to the Teamsters could offer airline workers the opportunity to finally all join together in one union so we can regain what we lost. Do you really see any future with your present organizations that have been blaming YOU for what has happened to us???

 

[whatkindoffreshhell]

Astonishing that AFL-CIO President John Sweeney wants ANOTHER ten-year term as leader!

Ten-year terms! Where else in this country could you expect such a deal, other than organized labor.

Sweeney and big labor are resisting change. It all flows from the top folks, any wonder why the average unionist doesn't want to change?

 

[sentrido]

Labor will make a big come back the day after a Wal Mart gets unionized. Till then it is gonna wither.