For those of you who don’t know, this is huge news because these kinds of things typically only get filed after the union advocates determine that there is overwhelming support in that workplace. There are 1500 staff in this warehouse . Alabama is one of the most anti-union states in the country.
Absolute support for these workers.
Well it’s a bad take and an oversimplification—workers aren’t permanently entered into the category of “lib” by virtue of unionizing, even if the enemy class influences unions and union leadership. There is not “zero class consciousness” at play when workers voluntarily organize in their capacity as workers and against the interests of their bosses, even if the organizers don’t have specifically socialist politics.
Unions are not like the most advanced form of class struggle organization, but they emerged through class struggle as vehicles for that struggle. Unions are still, far and away, the largest working class organizations in the US, and treating them as a one-sided tool for capitalist control ignores the countervailing reasons why workers join unions in the first place.
Socialists can and should orient to unions to spread our ideas and win support. Unlike with say the Democratic Party, it is possible for socialists to win control of the major unions, through elections, on the basis of a class struggle platform .