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mortauxvaches said:

do union leaders negotiate with management because of their privilege or because the function of trade unions within class society is to manage workers’ discontent and politicize and pacify their rage?

in response to a post last night about union leaders

I think there's two ways of looking at it. I agree that trade unions do (nowadays after anti-union laws) in practice just manage workers' discontent

but I don't think that's why people want to lead them. I think people want to lead them because they're genuinely [a] so sure of themselves [b] a bit contemptuous of other workers (and their capacity to self-lead), so they decide they would be a better representative for their union (than, say, recallable delegates from directly democratic workplace meetings). that's what I was getting at with the "privilege" comment

basically, I'm distinguishing between the effect an institution has in our world (what you're saying), and the reasons it is reproduced in our world (what I'm saying)

thoughts, anyone?

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@mortauxvaches Sadly, he was a scab. I would understand his position since he feels that he can't afford to lose his job or whatnot. And I would definitely argue with him but I know damn well where that's headed. In any case, he wasn't in the same department as the employees on strike that evening.

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