Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/04/this-unions-out-there-bustin.html
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I’d be happier if unions (specifically those representing transport workers for the most part) didn’t so consistently oppose safe-streets initiatives.
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were much stronger and more workers were represented.
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It’s so goddamn easy to join, too. Just pay youse dues an put your John-hands-off-your-cock right dere on that line dere.
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Well that, too. Safe streets and strong unions are not fundamentally incompatible, and both are worthwhile goals. Jeez.
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So is the SEIU:
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Dat wuz forkin’ bee-yoo-tee-ful, bub, just bee-yoo-teeful.
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Ha ha, very amusing. In Britain union organisers are usually characterised as having strong ee-ba-gum Northern accents, or else Sarf London Cockney-adjacent tones, like Peter Sellers in the “classic” anti-union film I’m Alright Jack, where the Union organiser is portrayed as a bloody-minded wrecker.
Here in New Zealand, our stereotype for unionists is usually a recently immigrated “Pom” (English person) with a Northern accent, who runs around stirring up “trouble” among the underclass (usually Māori or Polynesian) and is probably a communist. Very droll!
Such clichéd portrayal of worker’s representatives would of course be considered racist if unionists were a race, but since they’re not I’m sure this kind of thing will continue to belittle and suppress the workers for many years to come! Hurrah for the ruling class!
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also proudly representin’ da haad-workin’ people of Big Bill Hell’s Cars an’ Winnebago Industries.
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Winnebago Man turns 90 this December. I wonder how he’s feeling these days?
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