Author Topic: Unions and Strikes - specifically dock workers  (Read 3043 times)

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Unions and Strikes - specifically dock workers
« on: Thu, 03 October 2024, 10:22:36 »
In general I am in favor of unions, they are really the only way that actual workers can "get a seat at the table" where decisions are made.

As a rule, Capitalism only works properly with the "3-legged stool" of Labor, Capital, and Government (ie regulation). Our system became corrupted when Capital bought off Government and crippled Labor's ability to participate in decisions.

But that is not what this topic is about, although I know full well that TP4 will want to immediately turd-post all over it.

This post concerns the fact that a major demand from the striking dock workers today is that automation not happen around them.

What an utterly Quixotic notion!  That makes no more sense than imagining that prices and interest rates will come down significantly in the future.

That is not a Labor vs Capital dispute, in this instance, it is a Fantasy vs Reality dispute.
 
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
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