This Is Class War

That was a great post Eugene! I know what I will be talking about at our local union meeting this Saturday.

What I didn't hear you say was that the CLAC workers need their jobs as well. They need to be brought into the union fold. I have been advocating that union workers go to work at CLAC jobs and then organize the workers and call for a decertification vote and bring the job and its workers into the union fold. I know CLAC members who have tried to get into the mainstream unions and they are turned away.

I have also been saying that every job should be a union job. Union membership goals should be to sign up 100% of the workforce and even those who aren't working.

Lets stop calling each other scabs and start calling each other brothers and sisters, and then lets advocate making sure that all our brothers and sisters have at minimum, a bare maximum of food, shelter, clothing, educational opportunities, employment opportunities and self actualization opportunities.

Lets get this party going!

Bull Puckey!!

Perhaps if the unions pulled their heads out of the sand and helped mega projects come in on time and on budget then corporate interests would be more favorable to them. Ive worked union and most of the members are lazy and stand around all day while bitching when they actually have to work.

Why dont unions negotiate it so that all the members would get a extra bonus if they helped projects finish on time and on budget. Take the iron workers, unless they get their lazy asses together, they are going to lose out on all future jobs to the boiler makers. I know that the big corporatoins would be willing to spend millions of dollars on bonuses to the unions if projects came under budget rather then having to pony up the 4 extra billion over budget costs.

Bologna! Corporations will not give any bonuses to anyone except their senior management, eg CEO's, VP's, Presidents, boards of directors, etc. Corporations are paid by the provincial and federal governments to build these projects (by allowing the corpse to not pay taxes while requiring the working class to make up the shortfall), they have all sorts of write offs etc. They borrow the money for the projects from banks, and the banks create the money out of digital air, and they never invest dollar one from any stakeholder.

And while it is true that some union members have poor working habits, most do the best job that they can. Many corporate officers and senior management staff are incompetent. They rely on line staff to get the job done in spite of their own dysfunctional autocratic attitudes. How are you going to get a job done on time and on budget when those planning the project don't take into account all the things that have to be done and in what order they have to be done. The budget is drawn up using bids by contractors who don't know how they are going to be able to do the job at the price they quoted. Then feeble minded management turns to the workers and says " it is all your fault, you are lazy, overpaid and under worked". Who but a fool, or corporate board of directors and senior management staff, would think that with the prices of all the inputs that go into building a tar sands plant going up, that a plant expansion in 2003 of similar size to a plant expansion in 1999, could be brought in for less money? If your budget is not realistic then it should come as no surprise when goals set are not reached. If things are so bad, why are these companies making more profits than they have ever made before? And why are these same companies trying to pay their workers less and less? Is this the mad hatter's tea party?

Your statement about the ironworkers is an example of the divide and conquer scenario that corporate parasites are trying to sew amongst us. If ironworkers and boilermakers as well as all the other unions do not unite and expand their membership bases they will lose everything that our grandparents and parents fought for. We need all workers in the unions everywhere and everywhen.