A major union head went on Tucker Carlson’s podcast… gross. Harris could have done more to appeal to workers, but this dude can’t paint himself as a neutral politically-impartial leader!
It’s not that the union head should be neutral. The head of a union should be openly and unapologetically pro-union. Going on a podcast and agreeing with someone who is right-wing extremely anti-union, is a very bad and traitorous look for the head of the union.
…besides Sanders who has no power, the green party which has no nonlocal power, and the various even smaller third parties which have even less power, there’s no one people union to talk to.
Eventually you will need to wrestle with the basic fact that as a union leader or member, you’re an enemy of the state and will always be trying to convince anti union people to support you. That’s the point of a union in the first place. If Dems had any chance to be in power, union heads would be cozying up to them.
Strikes suck for everyone, what happens when the strike fails sucks even more regardless of if you pick violence or not, avoiding that is ideal, even if it means talking to people some randos on the internet find distasteful.
With who her enemy was, it doesnt matter who she said it to. The fact that she had to say it in the first place means Teamsters is an enemy of the country.
Reminder: this is the same Teamster that spoke at the Republican convention, making these comments to Tucker Carlson.
You probably shouldn’t take this at face value and assume this was her attitude toward labor in general.
It’s bullshit on it’s face. Biden told Congress they should pass the PRO Act, Harris echoed that ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
One of the provisions of the PRO Act is to gut right-to-work laws by allowing Unions to collect dues from every employee at a Union shop.
So the guy is just lying about that, of course there’s no way for me to know if she wagged her finger in a Teamster’s face.
Excuse my ignorance on American doublespeak, but does the “right to work” just mean the “right for companies to employ scabs”?
They named it that so it would get confused with similarly named laws that protect the rights of workers.
right to work laws “protect” workers from unions forcing them to pay dues so: yes.
If a truthful name were required, it’d be “right to free ride” or “right to scab.”
We could have gotten Right-To-Work off the books?
Well, nah. 'cause congress would have to pass it before the prez could sign it.
A major union head went on Tucker Carlson’s podcast… gross. Harris could have done more to appeal to workers, but this dude can’t paint himself as a neutral politically-impartial leader!
Yes because politically neutral means only going on democrat podcasts.
It’s not that the union head should be neutral. The head of a union should be openly and unapologetically pro-union. Going on a podcast and agreeing with someone who is right-wing extremely anti-union, is a very bad and traitorous look for the head of the union.
…besides Sanders who has no power, the green party which has no nonlocal power, and the various even smaller third parties which have even less power, there’s no one people union to talk to.
Eventually you will need to wrestle with the basic fact that as a union leader or member, you’re an enemy of the state and will always be trying to convince anti union people to support you. That’s the point of a union in the first place. If Dems had any chance to be in power, union heads would be cozying up to them.
Strikes suck for everyone, what happens when the strike fails sucks even more regardless of if you pick violence or not, avoiding that is ideal, even if it means talking to people some randos on the internet find distasteful.
Why would a union head be expected to be politically neutral?
Because in the US there isn’t a prounion party, so it’s pointless to just cozy up to one or the other.
With who her enemy was, it doesnt matter who she said it to. The fact that she had to say it in the first place means Teamsters is an enemy of the country.
Fucking thank you.
It was, though, at least in practice.
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