You can not believe how piss'd I am that some in the labour movement are selling out the masses to the corporate pigs just because they have a beef. I have a chance to see a few dissendent web sites and I appalled to read people who are already union members out of bitterness tell others not to unionize either with a particular union or in general.

Here it is we have the corporations banding together offering courses in preventing unions, providing information to stop union drives all or in part supplied by union members. Organizing drives very often are done in secret so if information gets out it is either a potential member or someone on the inside.

I hate union corruption and yes it needs to be routed out but playing into the hands of those who would enslave us given the chance is just plain wrong.

I'm not making this up. This was actually said to me by a co-worker. I stared at her for a moment in total dismay. She was so proud of herself, it left me speechless. Her "let's screw ourselves" mentality is exactly the kind of attitude that Wal-Mart looks for in its employees.

An ex-Human Resources assistant told a reporter on the Québec T.V. station TQS that she was told to hire people who weren't too intelligent, preferably single mothers on welfare, since a lower-wage salary offering them more money than what they got on welfare would make them want to keep their jobs and make them more compliant in order to do so.

Sometimes, it's so disheartening.

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[ 08 March 2005: Message edited by: Jumble ]

So I am wondering which is it, is the union a pain in company's ass or useless?

Yeah you know for a single mother working at walmart it is so much more important that she have no protection at all then to have protection from a union that has made some mistakes.

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An ex-Human Resources assistant told a reporter on the Québec T.V. station TQS that she was told to hire people who weren't too intelligent, preferably single mothers on welfare,

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But that is a bitter smile too, N.R. Kissed.

I think it's true that there has been a massive collapse in understanding of the meaning of solidarity and how much it meant for all workers, unionized or not, over the last century.

Even for those of us who have been assuming the importance of labour solidarity for years, that collapse in general social understanding has come as a surprise, I think.

It isn't just the unions who have to begin to react to that collapse. The left in general has got to recognize that we have lost touch with most people, and we are not getting through the competing propaganda at the moment.