A colleague of mine was ranting about how the local teachers union was against a vaccine mandate. Upon further inspection, it seems like a lot of unions are against mandatory vaccines.
Does this basically boil down to labor not wanting to be forced to do something by management? Or is there something more?
vaccines aren't political. you cant draw a line from class conflict to vaccines.
Getting the COVID vaccine is a political signifier in the US because conservative propaganda has made it part of the culture war, much like wearing a mask.
totally agreed. It's been absorbed/sublated into the culture war. which is why I think drawing the line between reactionary/comrade here is wrong.
as LeninsRage explained better than I could, a union's job is to listen to the will of it's workers and fight employer coercion.
if we want to draw the line between between reactionary/comrade here we would be anti-union and for employer coercion.
the more accurate criticism of this insane conflict has to do with the powers that exist beyond workers, unions, local governments and individuals.
which is why I myself have been losing my mind as libs/leftists have enjoyed the schedenfreude of watching random anti-vaccine people die of covid on the news.
this shit is not a matter of individuals making decisions, it's a matter of disinformation in the interest of capital.
You can if the remaining Koch brother saved his receipts.