Now comes word from the People’s Socialist City-State of Chicago that four unions are about to walk out of the AFL-CIO convention...taking $35 MILLION in back dues with them! OWIE!
Somewhere in my collection of papers, I still have a Union Card from my days at Cub Foods in Kalamazoo, when in 1991, UFCW Local 951 organized the store’s workers to compete against Meijer...only to have Cub Foods close the store three months afterward! I actually got to participate in the Union election by being sent as an observer to Local 951’s HQ in Grand Rapids, where I saw the votes being counted:
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
Some people were pretty jolted about that, but I didn’t care one way or the other. It was a job, so I went out and got another one. So Meijer won that little grocery war...only to have its a** kicked a few years later when Wal-Mart crashed their little regional party!
I know of at least one person who ranks pretty highly in the UFCW hierarchy, and I’ll bet he and his comrades aren’t too happy that Wal-Mart continues to kick its a**, and I daresay the members of said union (and quite likely those members of the other three renegade unions) aren’t too happy that The Powers That Be in the AFL-CIO continue to siphon Union Dues into Democratic Party activities, when instead they should go to concentrate on improving the lot of the members! In fact, I might contact my friend there and see what he’s up against.