the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net AssortedBiscuits [they/them] @hexbear.net 2 days ago

International Longshoremen's Association will Maintain Pledge to Handle Military Cargo During Strike

ilaunion.org ILA will Maintain Pledge to Handle Military Cargo During Strike; Passenger Cruise Ships to be Unaffected by 10/1 Strike – ILA Union

SETTLERS RIGHT YET AGAIN

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Part of the problem here is as unions get larger, their leadership gets more removed from the rank and file members and more integrated into larger political machines, namely the Democrats. So their decisions become more about keeping their place in those machines.

Also cannot be overstated the long-term effects of the purge of the more radical leaders in the labor movement during the early years of the Cold War.
- Honestly IMO those explanations don't do the issue full justice (or even present half of the picture). Settler-states (like most of the Anglosphere, or Isntreal) have a genuine "labor aristocracy-" one which has always fought to maintain its privileges, through genocidal land grabs, racial exclusion acts and segregation.
  
  Labor aristocracy is a common problem among the working class in WEIRD countries, albeit not insurmountable. My argument wasn’t that labor aristocracy isn’t real. I’m just saying that rather than being a thing the working class adopts entirely independently out of their own agency, it’s something that bourgeois democracy pressures the working class into as an acceptable expression of working class politics in the imperial core.
  
  Exactly. There is a reason the KOL was crushed and the AFL was begrudgingly accepted as a recurring enemy. Though the KOL also has a huge influence of settlerism and racial components, waffling on matters like female workers, and integrated unions.
- And also this has apparently been going on since first red scare when they donned the moniker “I Love America”

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