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  • plinky [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I was more interested in the who unions support, my understanding was industrial unions were kinda softish mainly spd/cdu voters. Despite afd rise, i don't think they've lost the unions, and that makes me wonder what will make the unions go "fuck all of this"

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Your understanding is mostly correct for a lot of the industrial unions. There are some attempts by the AfD to get reactionaries into Betriebsrat positions (basically labor representatives in a businesses' management, idk the English term), but they are usually pushed back and unions in Germany tend to have a fairly solid anti-fascist positioning. There are union members who are understandably disillusioned with the SPD, but there are little electoralist alternatives with the Left party currently being busy with a patsoc faction finally splitting off after years and years of infighting, pointless struggle sessions etc. It's kinda dire, honestly. Germany just doesn't have a strong left opposition atm.