https://x.com/Travis_4_Trump/status/1790366545685655783
The worst part is that GM and the Union decided not to notify the employees, and many of them found out on social media.
When the workers questioned the union, the union rep verified it was accurate. The workers say they left jobs for this opportunity based on promises from GM and the union.
The union will be taking the dues the employees paid and using them to send out mailers telling members to vote for Biden in November.
Are unions useless anymore?
They are. I worked under the engineering and technical union at the Boeing Company. It's formation was urged by CEO T. A. Wilson. It defends the contract under which we work and negotiates the process by which employees are rated, promoted, discharged, or laid-off.
Any corruption can be dealt with decisively by the members...if they are so inclined. It was ruled for over a decade by a despotic Executive Director (a hired hand) who essentially bribed the union leadership to give him free rein, so long as he arranged to have their union work done by paid staff and approved their unionizing travel junkets. He was widely hated by the members at large. Eventually, a group of us organized a massive internal political effort to gain control of the Board of Directors and fire him. Union politics have no equal for being vile. It took us about 6 years and several thousand dollars out of our pockets to accomplish this. His minions threatened a maneuver to reinstall him, but the word quickly trickled up from the ground troops that any such effort would be met by a massive decertification effort. The idea was dropped like a hot potato. He was gone like a used bedsheet.
But the point is: it can be done if people are determined to do it. I was greatly disappointed by members who were nominally honest and conservative, who bitterly complained about the corruption and toadying. I would ask them if they would run for Council Representative to change the governance balance. "What? Me? I don't want anything to do with it." And thus, the moaners and bitchers deserve their fates along with the sheep.
Every complaint against unions can be made against municipal governments. But do we argue, therefore, we should have no cities? What kind of union you have is determined ENTIRELY by the will and wisdom of the members. As an institution, it is a valuable aspect of freedom of association.
You kind of sort of proved the opposite point you were trying to make, I think. Especially looking at Boeing now...?
Edit- in case you don't know, I'm the one always saying cities are poison. Always have been.
Whatever is wrong with Boeing is NOT the fault of the union. And cities are as necessary as agriculture, without which we would not have "civilization." My point stands: the faults are on the heads of the people, not on the nature of the institution.
Cities foment plague, cruelties and inhumanity of man. They're not necessary; towns would work fine, especially now with easy communication. Some institutions are inherently corrupt by nature.
I guess you imagine that civilization is possible without large-scale manufactures or transportation and that we can all get along with the town's blacksmith and Dobbin. (I love horses, but they don't deliver furniture.) Good luck with that. Cities have always been the locus for employment, when there are few alternatives.