Why have you and others been trained to speak of the "union" as if it were some seperate entity than "US"? What if the union membership took a vote, and the majority wanted to allow more outsourcing in exchange for higher wages and better benefits? Who would you blame? The membership, or the name of the "union"? The TWU is not succeeding, just taking a different path to failure. But WHO decides that path? How am I suppose to be responsible when the "union" is something other than me and my coworkers?
Modern day Unionist have been trained to believe and actually do believe that the "union" is something seperate from ourselves. Because that is what unions actually have become these days.
If you study labor history, the "union" is supposed to be "US", and the name of the "union" is a name, but more importantly a governing Constitution, a contract so to speak enforceable by law as to how the "union" leadership is to conduct business. The "union" isn't suppose to be a seperate entity from the dues payer, making all the decisions behind closed door, secret deals with management, and continuously deciding what is best for the membership without a vote.
This problem arose because the card carrying Communist took over the labor movement and now we have all of these leadership controlled dicatatorships with the leaders using what little political influence they have to protect themseleves from membership demand and control. The most un-American form of representation known to man,
The TWU has pulled every trick in the book of law to prevent a membership ballot to determine our direction and which Constitution we would like to be governed by. That is what a representatioanal election is supposed to be about, "which Constitution do you prefer to be governed by".
Why would any American Labor Leader want to deny the membership from getting a ballot on any issue?
How strong can a "union" be if they only exist on the property because the membership has been denied the right to vote? The majority of members have signed cards authorizing an election, and the TWU leadership has prevented that vote out of fear of what the voting results would be.
There can be nothing weaker than a labor organization representing your interest, when the majority seek and want change. The TWU leaders believe the members are fools and that we need to be saved from ourselves. This philosophy is as far off track as possible from the needed direction for a successful and strong union.
How would this forum read if everytime the name of a "union" was used, the word membership had to follow.
Instead of
AMFA
TWU
IAM
TEAMSTERS
did this or didn't do this, or that, the forum would read
AMFA membership
TWU membership
IAM membership
TEAMSTERS membership
Who is AMFA, TWU, IAM, TEAMSTERS, these days?
Because, I dont feel a sense of belonging or responsibility to any of those as it is today. I too speak of the "union" as something seperate from myself. Because that is exaclty what they have become and are.
If the membership is really in control of the union, we would all be on here blaming ourselves for every failure that has occurred and working diligently to correct those failures. Instead we have a leadership controlled union, that is operating with a flawed Constitution, on the property by undemocratic legal rangling, and the evidence is clear from this bulletin board forum that we have all been hoodwinked into a false understanding about unionsim should really look and feel like. And so, we spend our days, blaming union's by their name, instead of acknowledgement of a membership mistake, and our own responsiblity for weakness. We are not weak, we are not allowed to make the decisions. So we all get to blame something other than ourselves, and nothing ever changes.
And they call us humans the intelligent species on earth.
I think lower forms of a life are smarter.
