In today's world, a workers' uprising that goes beyond trade unions may
become a cause for a grass-roots social-revolutionary movement based on
self-organization. For those trying to bury the working class it is
worth recalling some recent events: an armed uprising of miners in
Asturias (Spain), a workers' uprising in South Africa (even a workers'
council – a central strike committee – was set up, bringing together the
strike committees of various mines). But all of these revolts were
killed by trade unions. The same thing happened to the rather militant
strikes in Greece and France in the past decade. Strikes in South Korea
more than once or twice grew into factory seizures and armed conflicts
with the police, but each time the movement was stopped by union
officials who were looking for compromise and usurped the negotiations
with the authorities and the owners.
the need to rise against trade unions | libcom.org
Summary: Union leaders are increasingly distant from the everyday
workers they claim to represent, with faster-growing pay and an
entrenched ruling class, data show. Nepotism is in full force, union
members complain, and the closest some second- or third-generation
officials have been to a day on a job site is a class on labor relations
at Harvard. With a small handful of persons controlling a multitude of
related trusts, sometimes for decades, it should be no surprise the
Department of Labor has found at least 89 cases where union members had
funds embezzled by their own officials in the first half of 2013.
The Unions’ Own “1%”: Extravagant Pay, Nepotism, Government Indifference | Union Watch
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