To: Workingclass USA
In Solidarity,
I must hand it to
my old friends at Railroad Workers United (RWU). It took them a few years but they sure caused
a kerfluffle. Enough so that the United
States Senate enforced a "union" contract (as the reporters say) on the
rail workers. I wouldn't be surprised if
many of RWU supporters thought they were negotiating with their employers. The government does the contract negotiations
while the private corporations get the massive profits? There is a word for that and it begins with
Fuck You. Benito... Benito... Benito Mussolini - Lalalalala Lalalalalalala... made the trains run on
time!
It's not Left vs.
Right - It's the State vs. You, as it says on the back of my truck. Do you think these workers, or any worker for
that matter, get it now? Do they know who the enemy is?
Oh, they got it all
right, the un-sanded not finished 4x4 right up the keyster. The US House of
Commons graciously granted 7 paid sick days a year to the wage slaves, only for
those days to be gutted out of the Senate (meaning the Railroad owners)
version. They were given, maybe, an inflation adjusted raise.
I attended the
first RWU Convention and worked with them in their baby steps. Their issue then was driverless trains and
the oil spill wreck in Quebec as a direct result. And, of course, their
predictions of massive labor adjustments came true. 30% of the workforce isn't
there today. How can people not be workplace
stressed? On top of on-call, always irregular hours which was an issue so many years ago. It doesn't convince me the railroad is a safe
place to work or be around.
Railroad Workers 1/3 United the long time bickering 12 different unions -
craft, industrial, company - into a somewhat solidified block. Now the 4 unions holding out will be
identified as troublemakers and slowly disappeared out of the jobsite. Stooges will take over, deplete their
treasuries, collapse due to internal strife and be amalgamated into a more
'partner' union. The take-what-we-can-get
scissorbills will rule the day, at least for now.
Until we take my bumper sticker above seriously.
Sincerely,
All Hail, Joe
Biden!!!
(you must know
sarcasm when you hear it)
Wes
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