us0004us opened a poll (to which no one can comment) which asked the question:
"Should Union's Rank And File Vote On Their Future? "
with the topic description:
"do you agree that alpa's rank and file should have been allowed to vote on their future?"
and then us0004us went on to further load the topic with the one comment:
"democracy anyone?
should the rank and file decide?"
And then the thread was closed to further comment and only a Yes or No vote was allowed.
This is the equivalent to having someone ask: "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The question is unfair.
There are many nuanced and reasonable responses that are perfectly valid to us0004us's question that cannot be answered Yes or No without further explanation (which he cut off.)
My answer to the poll: Yes...with some caveats. The rank-and-file should have the ultimate vote on their futures, but that doesn't mean we should disband labor unions and have the company just make proposals to labor and have us vote on each and every one. The reason we have representatives and negotiating committees is to get some semblance of order and coherence to the process.
us0004us asks: "democracy anyone?"
Well sure, but even the various levels of government in the United States are considered democracies, but they are representational in nature and not pure democracies. This has always worked best, but us0004us's poll does not address this very relevant fact.
"Should Union's Rank And File Vote On Their Future? "
with the topic description:
"do you agree that alpa's rank and file should have been allowed to vote on their future?"
and then us0004us went on to further load the topic with the one comment:
"democracy anyone?
should the rank and file decide?"
And then the thread was closed to further comment and only a Yes or No vote was allowed.
This is the equivalent to having someone ask: "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The question is unfair.
There are many nuanced and reasonable responses that are perfectly valid to us0004us's question that cannot be answered Yes or No without further explanation (which he cut off.)
My answer to the poll: Yes...with some caveats. The rank-and-file should have the ultimate vote on their futures, but that doesn't mean we should disband labor unions and have the company just make proposals to labor and have us vote on each and every one. The reason we have representatives and negotiating committees is to get some semblance of order and coherence to the process.
us0004us asks: "democracy anyone?"
Well sure, but even the various levels of government in the United States are considered democracies, but they are representational in nature and not pure democracies. This has always worked best, but us0004us's poll does not address this very relevant fact.
