tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759586640964597209.post9056344058433466835..comments2023-11-25T03:26:52.112-08:00Comments on The Virtual Picket Line: The Return of LIUNA: What This Really Means for the Building Trade Unions of the AFL-CIOJoseph Riedelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15732565964063248913noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759586640964597209.post-55222778444913751782010-08-30T11:28:27.251-07:002010-08-30T11:28:27.251-07:00Joe
I agree with GP Williams and welcome LIUNA bac...Joe<br />I agree with GP Williams and welcome LIUNA back without any need for retribution or apology. We are stronger with LIUNA as an ally. The true villain in all this is the Carpenters Union. It was the Carpenters GP that put in motion a plan to form one large corporate based Union. At some point LIUNA became a target just as the rest of the non-mechanical trades did.<br /><br />The Carpenters have fostered a policy of Carpenter/McCarron hegemony over any union to union relationship they may enter into. What the score really is now is that the Carpenter/McCarron is on the outside of the labor movement where they belong until they can pronounce the word solidarity. The mechanical trades are just now experiencing what the rest of us have for years. That is the constant struggle to maintain a democratic labor movement free from the cult of McCarron.<br /><br />If the Carpenters strategy would have been correct the Carpenters leadership would not be in the situation the find themselves in 2010, dramatic loss of members, member pensions shredded by mismanagement, Regional Councils in financial straits, a staff of yes men more frightened about their own jobs rather than the interest of their own members, graft and corruption and the list goes on.<br /><br />Even with this said the Labor movement would also welcome back the Carpenters but they need to get their heads screwed on correctly and demand a change in direction from cannibalism to a direction based on inter-union solidarity.Unknown Construction Workerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12217074122329944773noreply@blogger.com