• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Industrial unions ran by activist kids from the city aren’t workers unions. They’re just leeching

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        One would expect an industrial workers union to have industrial workers in the union. Given they pay a % of their paychecks you’d also expect that industrial workers are to be the centre focus. Except when you go to their website it’s countless photos of activist kids protesting things completely unrelated to industrial workers unionisation. I dont think I saw a single photo of anything remotely industrial but many photos of soft handed people holding signs in a central city park.

        When I was in a trade union the people running it werent kids out of college. It was wives of trades or retired tradies. The focus wasnt socialism, wasnt leftism, wasnt isreal Palestine. It was certifications, standard pay rates and working conditions.

        The whole thing is a scam. Go through their site they have like 5 articles registering the same small book stores and cafes. My local branch is a fucking joke not a single actual thing about unions they just want people to do their communist revolution larp.

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      2 days ago

      laughs as a wobbly himself. we legit help local folks get strong enough to transition into “real” unions.

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          Describe the problem and how to avoid it. Otherwise you’re just a fucking scum-sucking fuckhead defeatist loser like everyone else who pretended they had a point.

          Your ideas don’t have to be sound. Though they must demonstrate your willingness to abandon the status quo.

          So tell us; Is your mind greater than the status quo, or not?

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      1 day ago

      rofl… “you cannot be a real union; there are no rich kids amongst you!”

      … You’re a fucking clown.

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        1 day ago

        I believe “activist kids from the city” means he’s calling the IWW the rich kids.

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          So activists are all entitled and can be dismissed as a whole?

          So nothing rich fuckheads say has power until they’re past dead?

          Both aspects bear meaning, but only one side of the coin bears extra suffering.