Las Vegas businessman on Fox says his Hotel is anti-union...and the audiance CHEERS

[Adi Shankara]

I'm watching Mike Huckabee on Fox News right now. They're talking about Las Vegas "fighting back" the Obama administration, because Obama said that people who are broke shouldn't be going to Las Vegas to vacation.

so they interview this fuck named Sheldon Aldeson, and he says "our service at the Venetian is the only non-unionized hotel in Las Vegas"...and the crowd of mostly working class people cheer.

WHAT THE FUCK?!? Is this the lumpenproletariat Marx described? What is this? why can the crowd of mostly working class people be so anti-union?!? Why!?!?

I'm just shocked.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

'Prophesised'

Dude...

[leninfan]

I just saw that and thought the same thing... HIGH FIVE BRO!

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

I'm watching Mike Huckabee on Fox News right now. They're talking about Las Vegas "fighting back" the Obama administration, because Obama said that people who are broke shouldn't be going to Las Vegas to vacation.

so they interview this fuck named Sheldon Aldeson, and he says "our service at the Venetian is the only non-unionized hotel in Las Vegas"...and the crowd of mostly working class people cheer.

WHAT THE FUCK?!? Is this the lumpenproletariat Marx described? What is this? why can the crowd of mostly working class people be so anti-union?!? Why!?!?

I'm just shocked.

Why are you shocked? You seem to have little understanding of America, or its working class if you find this shocking.

[The Vegan Marxist]

This doesn't surprise me. Where I live, a lot of people are working class. Though, most businesses down here are strictly anti-union. And if any union is present, it's being funded by the company that the workers are part of.

[Adi Shankara]

Why are you shocked? You seem to have little understanding of America, or its working class if you find this shocking.

I really don't understand it. This country spends no time thinking for itself, or the fact that corporate economy doesn't benefit them, and they see themselves getting more impoverished every year, and yet they continue to buy into the American Dream Propaganda Mythology.

I really don't have any understanding of the American working class, and in fact, I don't think anyone does really.

[The Vegan Marxist]

I really don't understand it. This country spends no time thinking for itself, or the fact that corporate economy doesn't benefit them, and they see themselves getting more impoverished every year, and yet they continue to buy into the American Dream Propaganda Mythology.

I really don't have any understanding of the American working class, and in fact, I don't think anyone does really.

Working class doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be on our side. In some areas, cops can be considered as working class due to their wages. But they are also upholders & protectors of the very system that exploits the entirety of the working class. So should we support them? I would say highly not.

[Palingenisis]

Why are you shocked? You seem to have little understanding of America, or its working class if you find this shocking.

Is its working class in general THAT stupid and against itself? What is the story there? Given that its FOX I would presume the audience is rigged.

I was going to make a joke about them all being Left Communists...

[Red Commissar]

Unions don't have much of a good reputation in the United States. This has been a fixture of American politics for quite a long time, particularly among the right who pander to popular conceptions of Unions being for lazy people who want more money.

[RebelDog]

How do you know the audience was working class?

[IllicitPopsicle]

I'm assuming that he's inferring this from the way they dressed.

[Palingenisis]

Unions don't have much of a good reputation in the United States. This has been a fixture of American politics for quite a long time, particularly among the right who pander to popular conceptions of Unions being for lazy people who want more money.

Uh dont most people want more money?

[Animal Farm Pig]

Look at this in a customers vs. workers frame. Organized workers are more secure in their jobs and less likely to take shit from asshole customers.

[Nolan]

The working class in the US is split, obviously. Just like anywhere else. We have a strong union tradition that's still alive and kicking...and we have ultra-conservative idiots who worship the ground their John Galt walks on.

[Omnia Sunt Communia]

Much of the working-class resentment of unions in the US is based on the fact that existing unions are exploitative instruments of bureaucratic middle management that in no real way empower the workers. If you are a confused prole it's easy to get tricked into thinking de-unionization is beneficial, when really it's just stealing back a meager bribe.

[Os Cangaceiros]

OSC pretty much has it right. A lot of the resentment towards unions is entirely justified on the part of many U.S. workers, as it comes from quite a few years of being reamed by them.

Anyway, I don't see what kind of signifance that a Fox News studio audience cheering at an anti-union statement has. The type of people who are in that audience are almost certainly conservative sycophants anyway, usually the mirror images of all the douchey liberals who cheer every shallow talking point that Bill Maher utters on his show.

[leninfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7VUklDlQw

[Adi Shankara]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7VUklDlQw
That song they sing is pretty catchy.

[Psy]

Much of the working-class resentment of unions in the US is based on the fact that existing unions are exploitative instruments of bureaucratic middle management that in no real way empower the workers. If you are a confused prole it's easy to get tricked into thinking de-unionization is beneficial, when really it's just stealing back a meager bribe.

It is also due to US workers being ignorant of their own history, they don't know how hard US workers fought for unions and why. They have no concept of worker/capitalist relations prior to unions, when US workers worked on average 84 hours a week some were not paid in US currency but in company vouchers that could only be spent in company stores.