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is a song that's in my hum-under-your-breath resevoir. Soilidarity Forever is a song I can sing in Chinese. I also know both the words and music for The Internationale. . . .
BUT
It was suggested, over the weekend,
By puddle on Aug 19, 2008 3:44 AM EDT
that what has been happening here is the result of union organizers taking over DFA. My take would be, that if this is the attitude that union organizers take towards the rank and file, then the end of an era is about to take place.*
I worked a job that would fall into SIEU's venue: home health care. And I promise you, I would have taken it no better there than I have here. Do the peeps who run unions have the view that the men and women they are organizing are basically stoopid? And therefore have to be *guided* or *ordered* to function?
Perhaps Union Organizers do not *get* the concept of grassroots action?
comments disapear into the archives
lame discords of yesterday's remarks
no connection, no line, no thread,
meaningless without bearing
course unknown
shall i attempt
to concoct a diatribe
meant for me alone
or attempt a discourse
targeted at a silent audience
choices seem to be liminted
and yet remain the same
blank blank blank
fill in the blank
don't tell me your name
put up a thread
its all the same
who is that again
in some remote local
doing the same
as the rest of us
with the trumpet of glory
pretending something's different
when its all the same
i repeat myself
when its all the same
i've got characters left
to give away
who's a taker
who's a giver
who's sane
vote for obama
or realize the blame.
fool's chance...293 to go...
And I mean, not only the end of DFA, but in a larger sense, the end of the labor movement in the USA.
I was reading on another of my blogs about Wal-Mart in Canada, getting another judgment against them for interfering with labor organizing at a store. After the first judgment, a few years ago, they closed the store.
What was interesting to me, is that that blog is not sorted for politics, and the general belief of the Americans (though NOT the Canadians) who expressed a view was that labor/unions were basically evil entities, or totally useless.
This is not my view: I grew up Democrat in a right to work state, and have always rooted for Unions. Mother Jones is a saint of the first water in my book. . . . Flip side, during my five years as a union member, I felt strongly that the union did not protect *me* -- it protected the lazy and incompetent. . . .
But the attitude here towards the users is vile. And if that *is* the attitude that the new organizers exhibit as they go about their bidness, they are NOT going to have a future. . . .
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