Of course, if Trade Unions were so useless, companies like Amazon and Starbucks wouldn't spend millions to break them, and trade union organisers wouldn't still be getting murdered. 🤔
At some point, surely, working people are going to stop acquiescing in their own immiseration? It is IMO no coincidence that the decline of Trade Unions has overlapped, year for year, the period where the huge benefits of productivity and profitability improvements since the mid 1970s go only to Capital, while Labour's share stagnated.
I am 60 this year; my whole adult life has been an erosion of collective, well, *anything*; will I live to see working people reclaim their dignity? Or will people continue to think it normal to juggle three jobs and live with their parents into their 40s, to keep the likes of Musk and Bezos in gilded, unaccountable splendour?
Ever since unions were first created, employers have resisted them and tried to break them. Older generations of union leaders found a way around this opposition. Today's leaders seem to be out of ideas. Then again, maybe unions were organisations of a particular time, and that time has passed, as it passed for the Medieval craft guilds. If unions are to have a future then it is up to them to create a value proposition that appeals to today's working people.
Of course, if Trade Unions were so useless, companies like Amazon and Starbucks wouldn't spend millions to break them, and trade union organisers wouldn't still be getting murdered. 🤔
At some point, surely, working people are going to stop acquiescing in their own immiseration? It is IMO no coincidence that the decline of Trade Unions has overlapped, year for year, the period where the huge benefits of productivity and profitability improvements since the mid 1970s go only to Capital, while Labour's share stagnated.
I am 60 this year; my whole adult life has been an erosion of collective, well, *anything*; will I live to see working people reclaim their dignity? Or will people continue to think it normal to juggle three jobs and live with their parents into their 40s, to keep the likes of Musk and Bezos in gilded, unaccountable splendour?
Ever since unions were first created, employers have resisted them and tried to break them. Older generations of union leaders found a way around this opposition. Today's leaders seem to be out of ideas. Then again, maybe unions were organisations of a particular time, and that time has passed, as it passed for the Medieval craft guilds. If unions are to have a future then it is up to them to create a value proposition that appeals to today's working people.