Reply #8: Jealousy [View All]

[pagandem4justice]

I'm definitely with you on this one. Even my husband constantly gets on my nerves with his carping about unions and "high school dropouts making $25 an hour to drive a UPS truck." OTOH, I'm from an old Ohio steel town that was destroyed when the plants all moved abroad in the late 1970s, and I understand the importance that organized labor played in our area's history, my people's history (Italian-American steelworkers), and our country's history. People fought and died for the right to organize, and today's working class and middle class have been brainwashed to hate unions out of the stream of bitter jealousy fed to them by the RW.

Am I saying that there are no problems in labor? No, of course not, but in my experience there are problems everywhere. Labor's problems have been magnified and blown out of proportion by anti-union activists who would have us believe that (a) labor's days of usefulness are over, (b) unions are Mafia organizations who extort dues out of members for nothing in return, and (c) all union workers are uneducated sods who make more money than your typical college-degreed manager or lower-tier professional.

Jealousy breeds contempt.

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