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Union bosses sold out worker interests. They virtually abandoned their most effective weapon. They rarely strike. They block collective struggle.
They tell rank and file members one thing, then spurn them privately. UAW president Bob King conspired with Michigan Governor Snyder the way he and other union bosses do with management.
Dues workers pay goes to anti-worker Democrats. It also affords union bosses substantial six-figure salaries, generous benefits, and affluent lifestyles.
In January, King spent thousands of dollars of union dues traveling to Davos, Switzerland. He participated in the 2012 World Economic Forum.
Global high-level business, political, media, academic, think tank, and union bosses met. Each year, they flaunt predatory capitalism and party. They plot year ahead strategies.
They advance their own interests at the expense or workers and others losing out. They do it annually. Showing up makes union bosses complicit in securing the divine right of capital.
No wonder unionism today is a shadow of its former self. It's headed for extinction without committed worker activism to save it.
Union bosses are their enemies, not allies. Rank and file members are on their own to fight back. They won't regain lost rights any other way.
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