Back in the day the debate raged across a much more attentive public square, unions, good or bad?
Ironically, the company(s) started to kill union organizers while floating the idea that unions could be 'hazardous to your health'.
That turned out to be just what the unions need to galvanize support, if you didn't stand up to murderers then you were truly 'on your own'.
So it came to pass that most 'labor' was 'allowed' to unionize but the lawyers got involved and laid all kinds of conditions on what a union could and could not do.
So when Reagan fired the Air Traffic controllers for a perfectly legal labor action, there wasn't a 'national strike'...because by then the unions had all been outmaneuvered by the courts. ['Comfortable' E-boards wouldn't risk the member's pension funds over court battles they couldn't win...although a prolonged national strike would have stopped that nonsense in its tracks!
It seems everybody 'forgot' that the union movement came into being DESPITE the courts!
Now here we are again. Police shooting people out of 'fear' and judges letting the offender walk because to prosecute a cop for 'wrongful death' would send 'the wrong message' to the 'blue wall'.
They would rather put the entire general public on notice than risk offending their only defense against an uprising.
Can you say the situation has sunk to a lower level than anyone anticipated? [And that's not true because they know full well the 'risk' they're taking. What they're counting on is you being to chicken to join a movement to protect yourself.
You know that part hasn't changed, being a union member (without a badge and a gun) is still 'hazardous to your health.'
Now we come to the other major problem facing a 'human union', that you have to be employed to join one! Yup, way back when the oligarchs had their weasels insert that stipulation into the conditions workers had to satisfy in order to enjoy 'union protection'...legally.
Ignored in this equation is 'what is legal?'
The [alleged] 'will of the people' is what makes any law 'enforcible'. How sad is it that this seems to never enjoy the support of the majority of the people?
In fact it was the 'will of the people' that allowed the union movement to be established in the first place...but only grudgingly.
Worse, the, er, 'exploiters' set their weasels to work to 'rein in' union power and make union membership as miserable as they could manage.
Eventually people came to view unions as an organization that didn't represent them [e-board members were regularly bribed with management jobs when they lost their seat on the board for recommending contracts that did nothing for the members.
Once again proving that greed trumps honesty just about every time...especially when the 'downside' of betrayal is removed.
If treachery resulted in exile [to a particularly nasty place] you'd probably think twice before you sold your fellow workers down the river but fat, stupid and happy E-board members weren't facing 'consequences' back then and the weasels made sure reprisal had significant legal ramifications.
So belonging to a union became widely viewed as 'legalized theft' and the companies started closing unionized plants wholesale...until the only unions left were in the public sector.
Let's 'rewind' a step here good citizen...thanks to the 'unfree' media, we are not united in any sense of the word. We occupy the same patch of ground and we're expected to sacrifice our children to defend it [if we aren't rich enough to buy an 'alternative to service' or some other exemption.] Yet those who make our laws tell us it is 'illegal' for us to make common cause with one another!
Naturally, nobody wants to get sucked into 'paying dues' to an organization that regularly sells you out to the people it was established to protect you from.
So let's start a union that doesn't cost anything [except your loyalty, that part is key. Betray a fellow member and you pay the price. Just like that other union that the weasels seem completely unable to get rid of.]
Left to your imagination is whether or not you'd ever be able to leave this new union...and the response is, considering you'd NEVER be asked to do anything against your will, why would you want to leave?
Because leaving would allow you to screw over your former colleagues...and nobody wants that.
Would you?
Again, I ask you to step away for a moment and look at the 'track record' of this, er, 'operating style'.
Governments come and governments go but these guys stick around! It is, without a doubt, the most successful model ever created...largely because it ruthlessly enforces it's loyalty clause.
Just a little something to mull while you ponder the hopelessness of the situation. Too bad The Avengers are fictional because we could all really use some 'saving' right about now.
Since 'Spirit in the sky' [and other fictional help] has turned a deaf ear to our pleas, looks like we're gonna have to do it all by ourselves...AGAIN!
Just one solution, the other one is to eradicate it all and start again but the raw material has the same flaws as the existing stuff has so where's the 'win'?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Ironically, the company(s) started to kill union organizers while floating the idea that unions could be 'hazardous to your health'.
That turned out to be just what the unions need to galvanize support, if you didn't stand up to murderers then you were truly 'on your own'.
So it came to pass that most 'labor' was 'allowed' to unionize but the lawyers got involved and laid all kinds of conditions on what a union could and could not do.
So when Reagan fired the Air Traffic controllers for a perfectly legal labor action, there wasn't a 'national strike'...because by then the unions had all been outmaneuvered by the courts. ['Comfortable' E-boards wouldn't risk the member's pension funds over court battles they couldn't win...although a prolonged national strike would have stopped that nonsense in its tracks!
It seems everybody 'forgot' that the union movement came into being DESPITE the courts!
Now here we are again. Police shooting people out of 'fear' and judges letting the offender walk because to prosecute a cop for 'wrongful death' would send 'the wrong message' to the 'blue wall'.
They would rather put the entire general public on notice than risk offending their only defense against an uprising.
Can you say the situation has sunk to a lower level than anyone anticipated? [And that's not true because they know full well the 'risk' they're taking. What they're counting on is you being to chicken to join a movement to protect yourself.
You know that part hasn't changed, being a union member (without a badge and a gun) is still 'hazardous to your health.'
Now we come to the other major problem facing a 'human union', that you have to be employed to join one! Yup, way back when the oligarchs had their weasels insert that stipulation into the conditions workers had to satisfy in order to enjoy 'union protection'...legally.
Ignored in this equation is 'what is legal?'
The [alleged] 'will of the people' is what makes any law 'enforcible'. How sad is it that this seems to never enjoy the support of the majority of the people?
In fact it was the 'will of the people' that allowed the union movement to be established in the first place...but only grudgingly.
Worse, the, er, 'exploiters' set their weasels to work to 'rein in' union power and make union membership as miserable as they could manage.
Eventually people came to view unions as an organization that didn't represent them [e-board members were regularly bribed with management jobs when they lost their seat on the board for recommending contracts that did nothing for the members.
Once again proving that greed trumps honesty just about every time...especially when the 'downside' of betrayal is removed.
If treachery resulted in exile [to a particularly nasty place] you'd probably think twice before you sold your fellow workers down the river but fat, stupid and happy E-board members weren't facing 'consequences' back then and the weasels made sure reprisal had significant legal ramifications.
So belonging to a union became widely viewed as 'legalized theft' and the companies started closing unionized plants wholesale...until the only unions left were in the public sector.
Let's 'rewind' a step here good citizen...thanks to the 'unfree' media, we are not united in any sense of the word. We occupy the same patch of ground and we're expected to sacrifice our children to defend it [if we aren't rich enough to buy an 'alternative to service' or some other exemption.] Yet those who make our laws tell us it is 'illegal' for us to make common cause with one another!
Naturally, nobody wants to get sucked into 'paying dues' to an organization that regularly sells you out to the people it was established to protect you from.
So let's start a union that doesn't cost anything [except your loyalty, that part is key. Betray a fellow member and you pay the price. Just like that other union that the weasels seem completely unable to get rid of.]
Left to your imagination is whether or not you'd ever be able to leave this new union...and the response is, considering you'd NEVER be asked to do anything against your will, why would you want to leave?
Because leaving would allow you to screw over your former colleagues...and nobody wants that.
Would you?
Again, I ask you to step away for a moment and look at the 'track record' of this, er, 'operating style'.
Governments come and governments go but these guys stick around! It is, without a doubt, the most successful model ever created...largely because it ruthlessly enforces it's loyalty clause.
Just a little something to mull while you ponder the hopelessness of the situation. Too bad The Avengers are fictional because we could all really use some 'saving' right about now.
Since 'Spirit in the sky' [and other fictional help] has turned a deaf ear to our pleas, looks like we're gonna have to do it all by ourselves...AGAIN!
Just one solution, the other one is to eradicate it all and start again but the raw material has the same flaws as the existing stuff has so where's the 'win'?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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