As blue collar jobs continue to disappear, the real question is how much interest there is in white collar workers to unionize. Unfortunately, white collars are somehow even more reactionary and classcucked than the average southern worker, and don't even want unions at all.
Union membership has been dropping for decades, and it's going to go below 10% by the end of the year. It's a lost cause.
I have a friend who works in the Volkswagen plant the UAW failed to organize, he told me straight up he would have lost money by joining the UAW.
Under the proposed contract, he would have gotten kicked off the line he was working on because of bullshit seniority rules, meaning he would have gotten paid less,and had the dubious "privilege" of paying dues to a union that actively supports politicians who don't give a flying Philadelphia fuck about him, or advancing the cause of labor.
There was also some hinky bullshit about the UAW trying to make the votes public instead of private, so they could put pressure the workers who weren't hip to joining the union.
Look, I've already conceded that unions are good, I actually belong to one.
I'm just saying that there are some really shit-tier unions out there, and trying to force people to join an organization that isn't fighting for their best interests is not necessarily a bad decision.
Holy shit I'm tired.
I meant to say that it's not necessarily a good decision, not a bad one.
I suppose that's what I get for doing this after I've just worked a full shift.
That sucks. It has basically reached the point in the US where even the shadow of a semblance of a pro-workers' organization is co-opted by liberals.
Non-radical unions are garbage.
there's definitely potential for that at least
Unfortunately, there are no more truly radical labor unions in the states.
The government wouldn't allow it, and porkys wouldn't hesitate to freeze out any workers who tried to form one that isn't going to kowtow to them.
Things are going to have to get a lot worse before they start getting any better.