[lbo-talk] Union top Dennis Rivera: "No one throws a party

[Steven L. Robinson]

So it is "anti-union" to criticize the behavior of union officials ?  Evidently you would think that Teamsters for Democratic Union is also anti-union for exposing similar excess in the Teamster unon over the past 20 years or so.  (Although I am not aware of Dennis Rivera being dressup as a Roman Caeser and carried into the banquet on a sedan chair the way one of Ron Carey's predecessors was, apparently Local 1199 has not yet reached that point). Would you call Jerry Tucker of the UAW anti-union for opposing the incompetence of his union's officialdom?

Judging from the article, it seems Local 1199 grew primarily through mergers and not organizing. If that is the case, then they are hardly a model in a right to work state or in an unorganized sector.

I would also point out that the justification for the CTW split from the AFL-CIO was that more money needed to be spent on organizing.  The evidence contained in the article I posted suggests that it is business as usual in one highly visible and infuential component of the new federation.

Well, I am indeed glad that local 1199 is subsidizing the work of other more fledgling locals, lilke your own, trying to organize - if indeed that is what they are doing. 

 However it is impossible for me to buy the notion that it is anti-union to criticize the policies of labor officials.SR

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From: "Jim Straub" rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com 

 But I'll ALSO say that in my local's organizing, which is in a right to work state in a local with a bigger battle in front of us than we can afford to fight, is directly subsidized by 1199 NY--- their members kick money to ours, so vegas can build power eventually like theirs have.  I'm always all in favor of cost-cutting and frugality and not giving the center for union facts or anti-union lbo-talk writers more ammunition.  But I find it offensive and laughable that this is what passes for news about unions on this list. 

Blech.
Jim
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