Org Labor Sleeps*

Workers Can Keep Their Peanuts!!!

The Eleanor Roosevelt dime - what a condescending act of class arrogance.  Throwing a buck or two to your breakfast waitress because she tells you a joke (eggs are the same everywhere) is an act of kindness and appreciation.  Eleanor didn't give a rat's ass about those street urchins she treated with her shiny stinking dime. 

ap-pre-ci-ate; 1) to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of 2) to value or admire highly 3) to increase the value

... and soon the government will not be taxing that 'earned' money.  So the Senate says in a 100-0 unanimous vote on the floor of Congress.  How many working class advocates, like Sen Schumer, Sen. Cotton, Sen. Turban, the Sen. Professor and Sen. MaryAnn and the rest, are in the House of Representatives?

So how did Labor on the Job flex its flabby muscle?  By whining to a mobster that will fix their problem, for a future favor, of course, collectable for eternity. DJT took the ball and ran it through the middle of the line to score a big impression to the Average Joe and Joeess in the service industry.  It's work where exceptional attitude and performance is rewarded.  If your wait staff server is young, they will have the attention span of a goldfish.  They will never get your order correct, a fate in life I have learned to live with the last five years.  I will still tip if their attitude is buoyant, or even pleasant.  So many miserable people in the service industry, I don't reward them.  Bartenders are as surly as their customers.

Let's face it, only a fool reports cash money.  That's the reason to tip, an act of working class kindness skirting the System, the Man, the IRS.  Subsidizing the International Conglomerate USA employer they are yoked to is not my motivation.  Taxing gratuities and tips for honest service never added up to much in the US Treasury.  Congress borrows money, that is what they do. Don't give the G your money in anyway, shape or form, but don't go to jail.  Give cash, if you do tip.

A unanimous vote of the floor of Congress should be noticed. The AFL CIO hasn't delivered on a single job site issue in fucking forever and Donald Trump today eats the whole cake in front of working class America.  Not a single 'union' can claim victory in this struggle of getting G out of your working life.  It's meager, it's peanuts in the Big Picture.  And it will be the last Labor stand, a Ghost Dance of sorts, as long as the Don is around. Labor seeking crumbs for sustenance, what's new?

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Escaped Wage Slave: Wage Slavery Compilation

Labor Beat: We Want Bigger Crumbs

TRT 6.00

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BREAKING HUGE: Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Labor Board Members in 6-3 Decision | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with President Trump and said he can fire the labor board members without cause.

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Free Free Labor*

FREE FREE LABOR

I heard an NPR radio report that Florida and its wannabe Antichrist, Governor Ron DeSantis, eliminated, decertified, legislated out of existence the 43,000 strong public sector workers unions. It had an interview with the President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (me, being a Electricus Emeritus, quite proud) and he said, and I quote; "There's nothing we can do." That will go in the drawer along with "My hands are tied", "That's just the way it is.", "Just thank God you got a job.", and the old evergreen, "I'll get back to you." Union leadership finally speaks publicly.

Many people have figured out, Staughton Lynd for example, that “workers" have more rights organizing as a 501(c)(3) social club than being in a AFL-CIO affiliated union. This is a unique opportunity for radical labor activists within the locals to quit kissing ass to the existing bureaucracy and form a group that improves their jobsite. The Club has nothing to do with your job, regardless of the fact 99% of the membership also work together in their "free" time. You are free to associate voluntarily, and yes, cry me a river, you are going to have to pay your dues personally. The group isn’t bogged down by bi-partisan Taft/Hartley and Landrum/Griffin regulation. Imagine telling your membership to vote forever-the-hell they want to vote for.

State workers are the Aristocracy of Fabor (false labor). I'm not the only one resentful of these people never missing a paycheck during the entire COVID hysteria. There was nothing to do, there was no paper to shuffle. A skeleton crew could have kept things going for three years and the scissorbills cashed every check while their neighbors’ lives were economically destroyed by The State. State workers are paid prevailing wage, and they collect while the private economy works to eliminate union jobs. They don't deserve that wage 52 weeks a year, in so many ways. Greedy bastards without backbone or heart, nothing new.

In decaying, decrepit Cuba Libre, there is no private economy. You are a slave for the State. That's your Union. The Polish Communists said, "If they pretend to pay us, we'll pretend to work."

I did an interesting interview with a founding member of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and later involved with the forming of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for public workers in the State of California when Reagan was Governor. He claimed the politicians were all for collective bargaining. They saw it as way to shed over-ambitious administrative assistants, lawyers, left-brain managerial type people (lefties?) they didn't have jobs for anymore or wanted removed from staff without hard feeling. Ensuring the current politician’s political fiefdom, dispensing jobs and favors was their motivation. SEIU was an extension of management from the start. SEIU in California is The State.

Parents, be good teachers. If your child needs a good teacher outside the home, my bet is that teacher won't belong to an AFL-CIO affiliated union.

"There is nothing we can do." A Truth on NPR, how unusual.

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Labor Day 2023

Labor Day 2023

A recent comment accused me of being indifferent about my "fellow workers". I stand guilty. They don't stand up for themselves, I'm not sticking my head out of the foxhole in class warfare. These people I'm supposedly "fighting" for are happy slaves and have no interest or reason in following my indoctrinated, brainwashed brain. I don't blame them. Stay in the middle of the road dressed in camouflage with your mask on will have you survive another day. Putting yourself out there, "fighting" the good fight, is social suicide. I'm a living example.

"Come, join The Movement and we can get beaten and go to jail together!"

In 2000, the Communist Party met in Durban, South Africa in conclave. The decision was made to change direction in the endless seeking of division, agitation, and created tension. The Reds decided to abandon its core policy of trade unions being the vanguard of the revolution. I guess they figured out the West’s ‘happy wage slave' union philosophy was indominable. People just don't like unions, and some have good reasons why, but generally unions have raised the standard of living for one generation, mine. The next be damned.

They decided, or were told, that the destruction of capitalist society was to be achieved by promoting sexual dyspepsia. Endless strife has occurred in every Western institution by aggressive homosexual promotion, transvestitism, and most awful, genital mutilation, abortion and blood drinking to achieve happiness. Influence genders/s bitterly fighting. These planned social actions, along with narcotic drug importation, would implant severe mental illness and confusion in the body politic. 23 years later, one can see the plan is working.

Totalitarian countries don't allow any of this type of behavior. In Cuba, internal drug dealers go to prison and never return. The Vlad, Putin, denounces the decadent West weekly, while actively leading and funding the destruction. Spoken like a true, lying Commie. In Islam, being gay will get your head chopped off. They love doing that sort of thing. In China, the firing squad is your end. In America, the media implies our happiness is met by sucking each other’s cocks and getting fucked up. The rest of the world values a good honest days' work.

Capitalism and Communism have one thing in common: They both love slave labor.

Government is a trap. Any attachment to your local union, association, or social club taints your existence, makes you a part of and junior partner to your oppressor. You are embracing your 'civil rights', meaning you are allowing someone outside your conclave to dictate policy in your organization. Even the term 'Independent Trade Union' is suspect. Just exactly to whom are they in dependence? A larger organization? And they are in dependence to someone, too?

It is interesting to watch American society organically enact a General Strike. Nobody wants to work for a wage in 2023 because; a) it's easier to go on the dole or disability and live without the stress b) the 'unions' gave my contemporaries pension plans, so now we sit on our fat asses and watch television for a living, if the stock market bubble doesn't burst. c) the younger generation can't add/subtract three-digit numerals, can't read cursive, or tell what time it is without their cell phones. d) workplaces across the land are gossipy, little hellholes. The strike is not because of the inaction of AFL-CIO, a non-government quasi-government agency, like CDC.

One must love what they are doing at productive work, or it's painful drudgery. The overall unproductive, draining, segment of society is the majority. More than 50% of the population of California is receiving a government check, and drugging and fucking BTW, along with the entire West Coast. The government solves all social problems by borrowing more money from yet a larger, and obviously, a more powerful organization.

Totally un- sustainable, to use a NWO term. They have plans for us serfs, and it ain't good.

In Hawaii, 100's of my fellow workers are still in vaporized solidarity. How, why? - where is the outrage? People are indifferent. What's the crime?

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Larry Duncan*

WARRIOR FOR THE WORKING CLASS (tho the working class doesn't want any warriors) 

Larry Duncan died.  He was 72 years old.  He was complicated, always focused on the task at hand.  Great integrity.  We worked together at Labor Beat for more than 20 years.  I can't say I ever got to know him as a friend.  His last words to me were cutting and personal, as all lefties do when they meet disagreement.  I let it go because I'm more familiar with the bigger man.

There used to be a labor movement in this country.  I got involved with video production inspired by Moore's "Roger and Me", the Rodney King beating and my own local's rank and file 1992 insurgency and paper ballot election clean sweep of officers.  The power of hand held video cameras, our own show slot and television studio and the backdrop of the Austin, MN meatpackers, the Peoria UAW Caterpillar, the Detroit Newspaper strike, and the Staley workers of Scabtown, IL (all sold out by their Internationals) made for compelling TV viewing, at least I thought so.  We covered them all, many in depth with the voices of those directly involved.  Chicago also had its Teamster dramas, Hotel workers shenanigans, and its SEIU company unionism to report on.  Plenty of material to work with.

In the late 90's, Wm. Jenkins and I were on a panel at some conference or another.  The labor officials present, some from Washington DC, were fawning over us wanting to know, "How do you guys do it?".  The fact is the phony SOB's never wanted to do it, and the only time labor officials are on television is in handcuffs from the courthouse to the car.  Labor Beat would get an annual donation from the local NABET Executive Board - National Assoc. of Broadcast Electrical Technicians - but they never made labor television unless it was their own picket line.  Labor Beat did a lot gratuitous work for these organizations and got very little support.  IBEW 1220 did have some technical classes for us and acted as our beard for appearances purposes.

At that same conference there were South Korean videographers that end up in jail for doing what Labor Beat was doing.  The video tape of the Korean General Strike of 1997 they smuggled out is still the most inspirational example of well organized labor resistance, rolling over their collaborative labor leadership, in recent times.  We were proud to broadcast it in Chicago.

We bridged the analog/digital tidal wave of change.  My fondest memories of editing with Larry was working on "Trainwreck of Ideologies", the 1996 government seal of approval of the Haymarket Anarchist's monument in Waldheim Cemetery.  We were in the editing suite under the stairs at CAN TV trying to mix the sound with knobs and needles as people were plodding up and down.  Larry, the perfectionist, would get so angry.  Later, CAN would give us the computer equipment  and software to edit in our own offices, but the old days taught us how to put a story together.

Orwell wrote about burning the books, Huxley about having so many books around nobody would read them.  Such is the case of Labor Beat and internet technology.  We couldn't wait for the day streaming video would come.  We were making You Tube videos before You Tube existed and were ready to pounce.  When the time arrived, we were swamped in a sea of cutesy cat videos.  Topical stories of the workplace went unwatched except by a few comrades (and the police).  Nobody watches Cable Access when they got Netflix.   Technologies, ex. Facebook, continues to be the new rope we hang ourselves with. 

Larry Duncan walked the walk as far as anti-war was concerned, and is still quite an inspiration to me to this day.  One day discussing the VA and Veterans benefits he said (as I remember), "What about my benefits?  I'm the one that did the right thing."  Larry was a Conscientious Objector in the Viet Nam war and suffered because of a correct moral decision.  In this military infused population mindset, it takes quite a bit of personal bravery and it's something I don't see at all in this country today. 

We were outraged when the Clinton Administration/NATO bombed a BelgradeTV station in the Kosovo war.  

Larry and Labor Beat's best work, in my opinion, was helping to organize and document the first  convention of US Labor Against the War at the Teamster 705 hall in 2001.  The work surrounding the Iraqi military aggression and continuing occupation was  the best on-the-ground reporting in the nation at that time.  The AFL-CIO convention of 2005 USLAW forced an antiwar resolution (watered down, of course, but nonetheless) and Labor Beat was there to record the brave delegates  state their  stance at the microphone.  It passed, the first of its kind in 100 years, and the AFL CIO quietly slipped into the shadows and has never been heard of since.  Organized Labor has not stopped one bullet from being manufactured, nor one missile shipped nor formed any alternative to the 'economic draft'.  The government war effort didn't miss a beat.  I'm proud of all Labor Beat's antiwar videos and the contributors and producers involved, all under Larry's leadership.

So now we have an American culture that needs constant entertainment, has no love of history or storytellers, and continues to blame everyone and everything for their own personal bad behavior.  Fixated on their genitals and confused as to why they don't match their feelings (it is all about them, after all). Holding Women's marches (for Solidarity, perhaps?) and then not being responsible for the 51% of lies told today. Slaves to their phones, slaves to the credit card company, slaves on the Corporate Plantation.The only acts of independent workplace action is to pack an AK47 with your lunch or melt down into a puddle tears and suffer from PTSD for the rest of your life through. The only unionism left, it seems, is the Chicago "Where's mine?" style.

Larry Duncan believed that change began in the workplace.  He fought very hard to empower working people.  But they weren't listening, and certainly not listening today.  His life's body of work will be housed in a dark closet in some university, as You Tube quietly deletes one video at a time with no one noticing, like Orwell's books one at at time on the bonfire.  The working class was hardly aware of Larry Duncan's contribution,  and they didn't support it when it was being done.  The institutions of labor and their quislings fought it.  A few of us are grateful and see quite a man behind it all.  He taught me a lot.  1) Struggle brings unhappiness  2) Learn to open your heart and love those closest to you.  It's the only thing that matters.