The Fate of the UAW: Study, Aim, Fire - CounterPunch
I can understand the fear and trembling union bureaucrats must feel as the guillotine of Right to Work For Less sows and scythes its way across the working class consciousness. If workers aren’t required to pay for services they don’t respect or feel they need, it’s quite likely deadheads will roll and no one will miss the toll they charged for lip service. The UAW signs confidentiality agreements with their business partners before bargaining. At the UAW Bargaining Convention, elected delegates express their goals for upcoming contracts, but it’s a dog and pony show which would beguile the wiles of Christopher Guest at his best. No delegate at a bargaining convention ever expressed an interest in two-tier, temporary, contract, or flex workers. Raises, rather than profit sharing, was the standard placard workers stamped on their picket signs since union time began. Profit sharing is like the whim of a diner’s tip—arbitrary, condescending, and inherently degrading. The companies likewise sign confidentiality agreements, but they don’t take the gag order seriously. The old saw about job creators and concessions has worn the blade of its contention raw as an old dog bone but when you’re desperate for a new idea the ossified jaws of an old canard may seem worthy of another chaw. Source: www.counterpunch.org
