It’s so fucking weird. I’m accustomed enough to people on Lemmy SWEARING that they aren’t allowed to talk about [thing which is only controversial to Fox News boomers] and “they” will delete it if you even try, that I assumed this was crap too, but it seems like it’s true.
From the community rules:
R5: No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties
- No posts about Democratic socialists
Apparently these use this to delete Bernie stuff.
WTF, why would people subject themselves to this
Unions are weak here and they are impossible corrupt. I worked with the operating engineers and ibew. Both had the dumbest people I have ever worked with. The job was not difficult but the bitch ass whining, back stabbing, negativity, and gossip were intolerable nonsense. People have no lives in that environment. The only thing that matters is no sticking out, and always showing up no matter how bad things are. It does not matter if it will kill you or everyone else by showing up for work or doing some job. March to your death or get fired and blacklisted by the union hall.
Just want everyone to know that in fact there’s a lot of variety in how unions are run everywhere, including the USA, and an anecdote shouldn’t be universalized.
Big industrial unions seem to be the worst.
I was running a series of interviews with early auto worker union organizers from USA and Canada (they were united at first), and the particular form of corruption that infected the UAW was a kind of takeover by industry management in the late ‘50s, and the old timers I talked to maintained the UAW hadn’t recovered. The CAW, on the other hand, was criticized by members as lacking solidarity with other industries and being too mainstream, though I heard few accusations of corruption.
Divide and conquer has been a long running capitalist strategy.
Don’t forget being addicted to pills and constantly having your physical health being wrecked and complete disdain for anyone who doesn’t want that
Yes I completely agree. A lot of these things need to societal foundations to exist for them in a form that they simply do not in America right now