Wednesday, August 8, 2018
DAY AND SUNKARA NYT HAS BEEN HIDING THE BALL ON UNIONS SINCE BEFORE 1950
They don't say that, but just read between the lines of their editorial.
How did a sustained political assault on unions happen since mid 20th Century?
Answer: Long term and entrenched collusion of liberal organs like NYT against domestic unions and for globalist labor initiatives in the form of free trade etc.
This is a work in progress, so maybe will update this post, going line by line.
How bout that!
How did a sustained political assault on unions happen since mid 20th Century?
Answer: Long term and entrenched collusion of liberal organs like NYT against domestic unions and for globalist labor initiatives in the form of free trade etc.
This is a work in progress, so maybe will update this post, going line by line.
How bout that!
They paint a rosy picture of what unions once did for all workers. They oppose a right to work law which forces weak pathetic government unions (the fragment that remains) to represent all workers against management and against government (lotta problems for government workers to even be in unions in the first place).
Day and Sunkara say this ruling kills unions by attrition. A lot of other factors have played into the pathetic history of unions in America than just those they refer to. Too long a sad list to go over here. Trust me.
Not least of the problems with this account was the tendency of early relatively weak union legislation here to protect only union members. Other social legislation protected other workers, but that was not necessarily the work of unions, in any event.
Making unions responsible for all workers' or rather just some other workers' rights to work delegates a government job to weak and vestigial unions.
But that is what Day and Sunkara claim was a benefit of robust unions long ago...... It doesn't get any more pathetic than that.
The Whig interpretation of union history in America.
The best reason to join unions, long ago and far away, would have been to fight foreign unions themselves, foreign governments favoring their workers over ours, foreign corporations doing the same things, offshoring production, foreign direct inveatment and favoritist finance of foreign projects, export subsidies over domestic consumption, things like that, long ago.
But, hey, that should have been the job of the American government all along, baby, not of fucking unions.
Unions here, in the face of liberal NYT globalization, are dead as a fucking mackerel anyway.
The main reason unions are totally dead now is that the industries that once supported our old schlerotic unions here are now also dead as a mackerel.
Why are unions dead here, whereas in other countries they seem to limp along, and some countries protect their workers aggressively by trade and investment constraints?
Same question again, baby, about so many goddamned topics the NYT claims to help you on:
DO THE OTHER COUNTRIES JUST HAVE BETTER JOURNALISTS?
Maybe Dylan Matthews, or someone else at, say, Vox, or some smart socialists at Jacobin, can set me straight, or straighter!
The best reason to join unions, long ago and far away, would have been to fight foreign unions themselves, foreign governments favoring their workers over ours, foreign corporations doing the same things, offshoring production, foreign direct inveatment and favoritist finance of foreign projects, export subsidies over domestic consumption, things like that, long ago.
But, hey, that should have been the job of the American government all along, baby, not of fucking unions.
Unions here, in the face of liberal NYT globalization, are dead as a fucking mackerel anyway.
The main reason unions are totally dead now is that the industries that once supported our old schlerotic unions here are now also dead as a mackerel.
Why are unions dead here, whereas in other countries they seem to limp along, and some countries protect their workers aggressively by trade and investment constraints?
Same question again, baby, about so many goddamned topics the NYT claims to help you on:
DO THE OTHER COUNTRIES JUST HAVE BETTER JOURNALISTS?
Maybe Dylan Matthews, or someone else at, say, Vox, or some smart socialists at Jacobin, can set me straight, or straighter!
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