Volkswagen workers in Tennessee vote to join UAW

[Dr. MB]

People who cheer for unions to fail are bad people

56% of Americans want unions to have the same or less influence than they do now.

Ok and? 56% of respondents are bad people.

People who cheer for unions to fail are bad people

56% of Americans want unions to have the same or less influence than they do now.

I said what I said, do I need to say it again slower?

Increasingly, our friends on the left are realizing their views are fringe, and rely primarily on coercing people into accepting institutions such as unions that they do not want. My hope is that this will lead them to reject the idea that, say, workers at a car plant have an obligation to join unions, and to embrace the ideals of personal liberty and government non-interference in private affairs, but I worry that it will instead lead them to anti-democratic extremism.

Personal liberty for the boss but not the worker. Non-interference in private affairs unless it comes from your employer dictating every aspect of production. Very cool system we have indeed

[Dr. MB]

Shawn Fain is an American hero

[Dr. MB]

People who cheer for unions to fail are bad people

56% of Americans want unions to have the same or less influence than they do now.

Talk about cherry picking and spin. The poll from last year you sight shows only 26% of the public shares your view, while the number who want labor power increased is the highest since they began the question in 1999.

How is this a spin? Someone said that anyone who wanted to fail in their mission of expanding unionization was a bad person. I pointed out that 56% of Americans don't want unions to expand. Sure, some want to shrink unions, others want to keep the influence constant, but that's a relatively minor difference.

Americans are very lacking in class consciousness. I don't think it makes them a bad person but it does show there's a lot of room to grow.

From my personal experiences a lot of people don't even really know what a union is or does. Oftentimes, if they do, their impression is of bureaucratic unions who don't get much done for their members. But the new UAW is re-igniting the tradition of radical labor unionism in this country that hasn't been a strong force for many years. The old school collaborationist UAW tried to organize plants in the south and they weren't successful because they didn't truly have it in them.

Once people see that, they're inspired. They know that someone is finally on their side in giving them greater control over their own livelihoods.