I am not dismissing any criticism, just the problematic fact that no one talks about unions except corporate PSAs. There are no institutions or traditions to support labor organizing in the way there once was. Like the idea of joining or forming a union is alien to most Americans.
> they’re too dumb to understand the concept is extremely condescending
This is a bad faith interpretation of my post. I did not say people are dumb. I believe the opposite; working class and middle class people can absolutely understand unions. My point is that there are no movements or institutions to bring awareness or organize people, and so people forget the history of labor organizing in this country. People intuitively get what’s wrong, there’s just no longer any vocabulary to express it. It’s not stupidity, it’s a multi-decade effort by capital to erase unions from the public consciousness. People just don’t talk about organization anymore, it’s a social phenomenon, not an individual one.
> Take a look at the current situation with police unions
Police unions are not part of the unionization movement because police are not on the side of workers. Police are tasked with defending property and the owners of property are overwhelmingly capitalists or other relatively wealthy individuals. In fact, many of the most deadly anti-union activities (e.g. attacking strikers) have been performed by police.
> they’re too dumb to understand the concept is extremely condescending
This is a bad faith interpretation of my post. I did not say people are dumb. I believe the opposite; working class and middle class people can absolutely understand unions. My point is that there are no movements or institutions to bring awareness or organize people, and so people forget the history of labor organizing in this country. People intuitively get what’s wrong, there’s just no longer any vocabulary to express it. It’s not stupidity, it’s a multi-decade effort by capital to erase unions from the public consciousness. People just don’t talk about organization anymore, it’s a social phenomenon, not an individual one.
> Take a look at the current situation with police unions
Police unions are not part of the unionization movement because police are not on the side of workers. Police are tasked with defending property and the owners of property are overwhelmingly capitalists or other relatively wealthy individuals. In fact, many of the most deadly anti-union activities (e.g. attacking strikers) have been performed by police.