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Unions falling apart?

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It appears to be so. The Teamsters and others are falling out of the AFL CFO, citing their inabilitys to help with declining enrollment. Observers feel these moves could lead to more decline and of course the Republicans/Corporations are having a field day with this as they see that their ideals of big business rules/little guy drools is taking shape and the Democrats don't do nothing about it except whine that they didn't win the last election.

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> It appears to be so. The Teamsters and others are falling
> out of the AFL CFO, citing their inabilitys to help with
> declining enrollment. Observers feel these moves could lead
> to more decline and of course the Republicans/Corporations
> are having a field day with this as they see that their
> ideals of big business rules/little guy drools is taking
> shape and the Democrats don't do nothing about it except
> whine that they didn't win the last election.

And good riddance imho. Those evil corporations and nasty Republicans didn't kill unionism...the unions did a good enough job all by themselves. All this talk about scabs & goons while their own members (unofficially of course) were harassing non-union ("management") employees who either crossed picket lines or lost their jobs. Long, stupid stikes over petty issues. Manufacturing employees who priced themselves out of a job, then blamed it on everyone but themselves (steelworkers, UAW, etc.). All kinds of silly make-work rules and an insistence on seniority being the only factor that matters.

Let's face it, unions are corrupt, hidebound, rigid stuck-in-the-past organizations that have made few if any contributions to society in decades...then they wonder why they have a lower public image than used-car salesmen or politicians. When was the last time a union official gave a damn about "the little guy"?
 
AFL-CIO

Now it's the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), who have bailed from the AFL-CIO. Who's Next?

> It appears to be so. The Teamsters and others are falling
> out of the AFL CFO, citing their inabilitys to help with
> declining enrollment. Observers feel these moves could lead
> to more decline and of course the Republicans/Corporations
> are having a field day with this as they see that their
> ideals of big business rules/little guy drools is taking
> shape and the Democrats don't do nothing about it except
> whine that they didn't win the last election.
>
> But hey we have great moral vaules! Kids are praticing
> abstinence, No child is left behind, and everything is
> great. Just can't pay the bills or go to the doctor that's
> all. God Bless America.
>
 
Unions getting back to original purpose?

> It appears to be so. The Teamsters and others are falling
> out of the AFL CFO, citing their inabilitys to help with
> declining enrollment.

The main reason cited my the teamsters and service employees was the AFL-CIO's emplasis on political activism as opposed to serving members.

When I was a kid, we learned in school about Samuel Gompers and the labor movement and how they helped the workers.

But I've heard nothing positive about the unions' accomplishments since I've been old enough to read -- from the featherbedding scandals of the 1960s to harassment of non-union workers to spending union dues to promote extremist positions not held by the rank-and-file members.

Maybe this change will help get unions back on the rioght track.

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> It appears to be so. The Teamsters and others are falling
> out of the AFL CFO, citing their inabilitys to help with
> declining enrollment. Observers feel these moves could lead
> to more decline and of course the Republicans/Corporations
> are having a field day with this as they see that their
> ideals of big business rules/little guy drools is taking
> shape and the Democrats don't do nothing about it except
> whine that they didn't win the last election.

Meanwhile, the Teamsters are picketing one of the contractors of MTA in Los Angeles as of this morning. The reason? MTA reawarded its contracts for several low-ridership lines as of today, and this contractor now operates two lines that were being operated by a contractor that had used Teamsters, but did not win the bid for the new contract.

IMHO, the Teamsters look pretty stupid picketing the new contractor over an issue the contractor did not control.
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