Why is your union leadership allowed to settle for a deal without consent from the workers? Is that how unions generally work, or is yours particularly undemocratic?
My union has been led by the same caucus for 60 years. It's extremely undemocratic and has very little culture of rank and file organizing.
Here's an article about them from my caucus, if you're curious.
Technically the decision was made by the delegates from the individual chapters. But it was presented as a done deal and a lot of the delegates are not particularly political or are bootlickers.
Actually, funny enough, although the article doesn't go deep into this the ruling caucus was founded by a former Trot and practice a form of democratic centralism
Hmm, so democracy is very important for unions. A lot of complaints about unions seem to mirror complaints about the government ("Too much bureaucracy" , "They don't listen to us"). I think we as leftists are averse to democracy because of our experience with bourgeois democracy, but real democracy is very important. We should incorporate that into our messaging, that we want real responsive and direct democracy, instead of responding with just " YES :lenin-fancy: " when people say we want to overthrow liberal democracy.
Here's a post I did a while ago about working to organize my chapter: https://hexbear.net/post/19652
Why is your union leadership allowed to settle for a deal without consent from the workers? Is that how unions generally work, or is yours particularly undemocratic?
My union has been led by the same caucus for 60 years. It's extremely undemocratic and has very little culture of rank and file organizing.
Here's an article about them from my caucus, if you're curious.
Technically the decision was made by the delegates from the individual chapters. But it was presented as a done deal and a lot of the delegates are not particularly political or are bootlickers.
Actually, funny enough, although the article doesn't go deep into this the ruling caucus was founded by a former Trot and practice a form of democratic centralism
Hmm, so democracy is very important for unions. A lot of complaints about unions seem to mirror complaints about the government ("Too much bureaucracy" , "They don't listen to us"). I think we as leftists are averse to democracy because of our experience with bourgeois democracy, but real democracy is very important. We should incorporate that into our messaging, that we want real responsive and direct democracy, instead of responding with just " YES :lenin-fancy: " when people say we want to overthrow liberal democracy.