Destroying Independent Labor:
Humberto Fontova should decide whose side he is on. He gives us a good history of how the pre-Castro labor movement fought against the imposition of union busting Stalinism. Where does he stand on the Conservative Right-Wing agenda which is also concerned with destroying an independent labor movement in the US? American Unions as an institutional route into the middle class are the targets of the Right-Wing agenda. Why does not Fontova speak up for them too? In post-liberal Right-Wing controlled American, trade unions will be nonexistent or so subservient to the corporate elites they may as well be Stalinist tools for the wealthy. The Right is making every attempt to bust them: passing right-to-work for ....
You just knew Che Guevara would show up as an icon of the union demonstrators in Chicago. Why? Well, let’s consider the factors in this demonstration by union-educators who were mostly educated by other union-educators.
*Che Guevara outlawed trade unions. Then-- at Soviet gun-point-- he herded all recalcitrant Cuban union-members into forced-labor camps and sent their rebellious union-leaders to the firing squad.
* The union members clamoring for more union privileges in Chicago while wearing t-shirts hailing this murderous Stalinist union-buster and hailing him as a “role model” are mostly products of America’s public schools-- and keen...
What do unions produce?
A business must produce a product or service to be in business.
What do the unions produce, other that huge amounts of union "dues" (money extorted from it's members) that it uses to influence political campaigns without any member input. Huge salaries and perks for the union "bosses" and it operates in the exact manner described in the federal RICO Act definition
The Unions keep promoting "workers rights". Okay then, they should practice what they preach.
1. Give the workers the right to join OR opt out of joining a Union instead or requiring Union membership for employment.
2. Give the workers the right to choose whether or not the States automatically deduct Union dues from their pay checks.
3. Give workers the right to control which politicians their dues are used to purchase.
I live in a 'right to work' state. Why should anyone work in a 'pay to work' state?