The ruling means Glacier Northwest Inc. can sue over its claim that wet concrete loaded onto trucks was rendered useless after workers walked off the job.
A big part of why unions are so weak in the US is that they were legalistically coopted (and the militant ones were shut down during the red scare).
Every breakdown of the legalistic cooption is damage to a very particular kind of workplace organizing, which leaves other forms as the only option. It also undermines the myths of how unions should work, i.e. in open collaboration with Democrats and through strict legal channels.
While the US has poor class consciousness, we are also looking at a modest reproletarianization and rediscovery of labor organizing itself. Those who see the violence of the system are getting taught important lessons about bourgeois politics, lessons they only otherwise get from the rare cool union organizers (socialists).
This will result in escalations, overall. That is exactly what we all should be expecting under neoliberalization. They're not just going to let us organize and win, they're going to turn the screws as hard as they can, as much as they can get away with, and our entire fight domestically is to create structures in opposition. And they will make those structures illegal, so be ready for that, too.
A big part of why unions are so weak in the US is that they were legalistically coopted (and the militant ones were shut down during the red scare).
They were also culturally co-opted. Pick any American TV cop/lawyer show from the 1970s onwards, and chances are that every time the story involves a union, it's about organized crime.
Unions also regularly betrayed their own workers by kicking out socialists and minorities to try and please our ruling class, and it just made them weaker and easier to destroy
Can you explain what you mean, for someone less informed on unions in the US? Are the Teamsters a reactionary bunch, or are you saying some Teamsters happen to be reactionary?
Teamsters are a union you can affiliate with when you form a union. When you're going through the legal union process in the US, you can affiliate at the time you form and it's very difficult to change afterwards.
Locals are the local union that might affiliate with a bigger union, like the Teamsters.
A lot of Teamster locals are particularly reactionary. Not all, but many. They have chuddy views and try to bargain about the latest mainstream anti-Democrat talking points and so on. Like wearing masks during the pandemic.
They are modestly militant, though, which is more than I can say for a lot of other US unions. It's worthwhile trying to reform the locals, imo - and to kick out the cops.
conditions never change! everything will stay the same! material conditions have no social/political/cultural impact! the end of history is 100% a real thing!!
Wow yeah TV is so powerful man. I- i mean they just can't escape from it. And nobody notices. Except me. I'd stop watching stream clips all day but god the propagandas just too powerful so i can barely move. If only someone would come along and tell me how to do this properly.
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A big part of why unions are so weak in the US is that they were legalistically coopted (and the militant ones were shut down during the red scare).
Every breakdown of the legalistic cooption is damage to a very particular kind of workplace organizing, which leaves other forms as the only option. It also undermines the myths of how unions should work, i.e. in open collaboration with Democrats and through strict legal channels.
While the US has poor class consciousness, we are also looking at a modest reproletarianization and rediscovery of labor organizing itself. Those who see the violence of the system are getting taught important lessons about bourgeois politics, lessons they only otherwise get from the rare cool union organizers (socialists).
This will result in escalations, overall. That is exactly what we all should be expecting under neoliberalization. They're not just going to let us organize and win, they're going to turn the screws as hard as they can, as much as they can get away with, and our entire fight domestically is to create structures in opposition. And they will make those structures illegal, so be ready for that, too.
They were also culturally co-opted. Pick any American TV cop/lawyer show from the 1970s onwards, and chances are that every time the story involves a union, it's about organized crime.
Unions also regularly betrayed their own workers by kicking out socialists and minorities to try and please our ruling class, and it just made them weaker and easier to destroy
Settler moment.
More recently it's been reactionaries. Lots od reactionary Teamster unions. Cop unions tend to be Teamsters.
I mean, I think kicking out socialists and minor has to qualify unions of the past as reactionary in some way too no?
Yes but I'm thinking of unions that are against socialists because socialists are pro-trans and pro-immigrant.
I see what you mean now
Can you explain what you mean, for someone less informed on unions in the US? Are the Teamsters a reactionary bunch, or are you saying some Teamsters happen to be reactionary?
Teamsters are a union you can affiliate with when you form a union. When you're going through the legal union process in the US, you can affiliate at the time you form and it's very difficult to change afterwards.
Locals are the local union that might affiliate with a bigger union, like the Teamsters.
A lot of Teamster locals are particularly reactionary. Not all, but many. They have chuddy views and try to bargain about the latest mainstream anti-Democrat talking points and so on. Like wearing masks during the pandemic.
They are modestly militant, though, which is more than I can say for a lot of other US unions. It's worthwhile trying to reform the locals, imo - and to kick out the cops.
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conditions never change! everything will stay the same! material conditions have no social/political/cultural impact! the end of history is 100% a real thing!!
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Wow yeah TV is so powerful man. I- i mean they just can't escape from it. And nobody notices. Except me. I'd stop watching stream clips all day but god the propagandas just too powerful so i can barely move. If only someone would come along and tell me how to do this properly.
You're not immune to propaganda either :wonder-who-thats-for:
No its just you
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Why do you spend so much time in the cuck pit then. Clearly it's all you do