Why is the Pro Act, whose passage is contingent on unlikely filibuster reform, considered a more "grown up," real wold, achievable goal than withholding COVID bill votes for the $15 min wage? Or FTV? We discuss on the latest @BadFaithPod https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1385272505993154560
Because one has the entirety of organized American labor behind it and the other was an idea someone had on a podcast.
Yeah, that’s the problem, genius... someone on a podcast shouldn’t be coming up with these ideas, because they’re extremely simple and easy to figure out.
Pressuring politicians to force them to do what their supporters/constituents want is not really that complicated.
https://twitter.com/Left_Blacksmith/status/1385937077598965762
another post in conversation under that anti-FTV/anti-podcaster (!) guy's feed:
why is the symbolic vote on the PRO-act that does nothing and won't become law so superior to a symbolic vote on M4A that does nothing and won't become law?
Because unions are an important institution in the labor aristocrat wing of capitalism. Who else is going to send newsletters to worker telling them to vote for the Democratic candidate? The CFL-AIO are literally agents of CIA imperialism, these Liz Warren voting radlibs who are pushing this program are just maintaining their hegemony with this virtue signalling capitalist reform bullshit.
This is actually insane. The only thing that's bad about this is the possibility that the new unions might get de-fanged. Even then, a de-fanged union can grow them back. A dead union can't
I guess my anxiety is that even with the growth of unions, they will probably still represent a small portion of workers. And while those workers will have better wages / conditions, they will be mollified and will be more likely to defend the capitalist system than to seek to alter it.
Historically, that makes no sense. Union membership is always significantly more radical than union leadership. As unions grow, the leadership feels more pressure to change. Especially because the new members aren't conditioned to the current status quo.
Grow the unions and hamstring the leadership. Labor aristocrats are the first in the line of trash that needs to be taken out.