American "unions" Deserve To Be Crushed...

[Cheung Mo]

Any labour organisation that backs right-wing assholes like Joe Lieberman does far more harm than good for workers.

[KC]

The unions don't need to be crushed; the workers should expel those that support him, which is probably the higher-ups.

[Axel1917]

Originally posted by Khayembii [email protected] 6 2006, 06:20 PM
The unions don't need to be crushed; the workers should expel those that support him, which is probably the higher-ups.
Indeed. The higher ups are the ones that are the lackeys of the bourgeoisie, not the workers themselves. Avoiding unions just leaves those workers behind to such reactionary influences.

[Zero]

American "unions" are just that.

"unions".

They are just groups of individuals who join together to work within the system to improve their momentary position. When they fail, they blame themselves and disband. Those few "unions" who win inside the system win because they are inside the system, or have contacts inside the system. Their leaders are removed from their "union", and beurocratised. Never to be heard from again. Their "union" is then turned into another tenticle of beurocracy, by that time it ceases to be a union, and turns into an afternoon club.

[More Fire for the People]

Hey Zero, I take it you've never heard of the IWW (http://iww.org)?
http://www.iww.org/graphics/agitators/classic/solidcircleA.jpg

[ComradeOm]

Heavens forbid that the workers actually organise Zero :rolleyes:

[rouchambeau]

In addition to what everyone else has said, unions do not do anything themselves; it's the people in the unions that make the decisions. Even then, one would have to prove that all members of a union are bourgeois/right-wing/whatever to justify smashing their union and only if you can prove that the union is cause for being bourgeois/right-wing/whatever.

[Zero]

I'm talking about local unions and my experiances with them. 99% of the time they use direct action as only a last resort for earning workers rights. Unions have most of the time ceased to be what they have usually been, and become beurocratic institutions of the state.