Unions CAVED To Big Pharma During The Pandemic!

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  • Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
  • Unions are supposed to protect their workers from the depredations of unfettered capitalism, yet when the pandemic struck and government and employer-driven vaccine mandates were handed down, unions folded, leading to the firings of thousands of workers. And even today no one takes unions to task for neglecting this basic justification for their existence.
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  • @thejimmydoreshow
    @thejimmydoreshow  27 днів тому +19

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    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 27 днів тому +1

      I never trusted unions and never joined one... like the Vaxx, was pressurised by unions to join.... not stop bullying..

    • @freedomfest2741
      @freedomfest2741 27 днів тому

      Workers who refused the vaccine were standing up for themselves, Richard Wolf did nothing, the people that didn't take the vaccine was against it from day 1, by the time Biden tried to mandate it, we were already saying, fire me then, while everyone else was calling us every name in the book.

  • @Dan-xo9ly
    @Dan-xo9ly 27 днів тому +243

    My union happily sold me out. They belong in jail just like the rest who pushed this on us.

    • @jimyounger9490
      @jimyounger9490 27 днів тому +7

      Agreed

    • @bullmoose5574
      @bullmoose5574 27 днів тому +7

      Mine too. Will never ever support unions again

    • @dannywallace1210
      @dannywallace1210 26 днів тому

      What they really wanted, Holding people down kicking and Screaming pulling pants down to vax that ASS.

    • @gammasmash1924
      @gammasmash1924 26 днів тому +7

      Was Wolff saying that the Unions WANT to do the right thing by their workers, but have been somehow prevented from doing so because they....[checks notes].....need even more money and power? Did I understand him right?

    • @Pokey-xp9gn
      @Pokey-xp9gn 26 днів тому

      Anyone claiming to protect you these days is lying..

  • @Rampart.X
    @Rampart.X 27 днів тому +170

    I lost my job and my union wasn't interested. They supported the government's response. FTUs.

    • @Spiderwebsider
      @Spiderwebsider 25 днів тому

      Aussie unions were a f**ken disgrace. Sell out pieces of sh*t.

  • @slobiden.2593
    @slobiden.2593 27 днів тому +286

    I don’t think they caved. I think they were working hand in glove with one another.
    Unions got paid. Big pharma got paid. Workers stayed home.
    They all won big, we all lost bigger.

    • @slee2819
      @slee2819 27 днів тому

      💯 nurses and teachers unions are some of the most disgusting Democrat shills there are. They betray the people who pay them, the public, as well as the people they pretend to serve and care about.

    • @tappedout300xc
      @tappedout300xc 27 днів тому +9

      That is the absolute truth.

    • @christophercarrigg3775
      @christophercarrigg3775 27 днів тому +4

      Perfectly said

    • @grisflyt
      @grisflyt 27 днів тому +3

      I don't think so. Different in Sweden, where I live. Here you typically worked every other week. One half at home while the other half worked. It was smooth. Employers didn't have to lay anyone off while everybody got full salary.
      There were lots of layoffs in the US. How do unions benefit from that?

    • @veronicascott313
      @veronicascott313 27 днів тому

      They only won temporarily. Their greed broke the system. Pharma greased all corporate, political and tech wheels but now the wheels are falling off. They hurt the hands that feed them. Ours, if we are not working and making enough to buy the things that they have us making then they are not making money.

  • @ohsweetmystery
    @ohsweetmystery 27 днів тому +171

    Sorry, his reasoning is not right about unions. The leadership of the unions have not been working for the workers for a very long time.

    • @blackbette07
      @blackbette07 27 днів тому

      Thank You!!! Union leaders are like our "representatives politicians" only for themselves!

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 27 днів тому

      They never did, they just needed to appear to do so in order to get all the useful idiots to support them.

    • @patrickahaus6570
      @patrickahaus6570 27 днів тому +2

      They work for nurses.🎉

    • @GeneralBlorp
      @GeneralBlorp 27 днів тому +18

      Think of them as the camp guards. They serve a purpose for the elites in power. It’s about class, not politics race or gender.

    • @garrettpatten6312
      @garrettpatten6312 27 днів тому +18

      72,000 nurses got canned in one state....

  • @matthewhowe3727
    @matthewhowe3727 27 днів тому +190

    "Get the vaccine or don't work." Was from our IBEW606 Union here in Orlando, FL. Glad that I stood up to both my union and employer.

    • @GeneralBlorp
      @GeneralBlorp 27 днів тому +10

      Actual Criminals

    • @stirfrybry1
      @stirfrybry1 27 днів тому +3

      Are you still in the union? LOL

    • @susanmclane7781
      @susanmclane7781 27 днів тому +2

      And my father was an organizer for the UE, the RADICAL union which could not compete with the corporate union.

    • @1Nanerz
      @1Nanerz 27 днів тому +6

      IBEW didn’t do anything for any members in North America against the mandates. No matter the local or trade.

    • @g0rd0nfreeman
      @g0rd0nfreeman 27 днів тому +4

      Did you ask for your union fees back at least?

  • @dranderson6071
    @dranderson6071 27 днів тому +241

    Unions should be sued by their workers. They did nothing to protect the workers. Sham

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 27 днів тому +16

      The purpose of the unions is to support the party.

    • @AclypseOfReason
      @AclypseOfReason 27 днів тому +4

      You can sue your union for failing to represent but you’d need lots of money as you have to hire your own lawyers.

    • @ifly-fsx
      @ifly-fsx 27 днів тому +1

      This was also political from the beginning. If you were against this, you were an anti-science flat earther. i.e., a republican. They had to signal virtue, hard, by going the opposite way.

    • @AJohnSmith
      @AJohnSmith 27 днів тому +1

      Yeah, sure.

    • @GeneralBlorp
      @GeneralBlorp 27 днів тому

      Correct

  • @traillesstravelled7901
    @traillesstravelled7901 27 днів тому +60

    Hate to tell ya, but unions are not for the employees, they are for the unions, they have always been.

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      If you can negotiate better, prove it.

    • @tomcampbell2627
      @tomcampbell2627 25 днів тому

      Union workers are FOR each other. Union Bosses are for democrat oligarchs

  • @silvervine6823
    @silvervine6823 27 днів тому +71

    I work for a hospital in California, stationary engineer, Local 39. I put in a religion exemption form with the hospital I working at, it was not excepted and I was fired from my job. Local 39 filed a grievance for me, but two years to the day I was fired I received a letter from Local 39 saying they are no longer going to represent me. Not only the hospital screwed me over but Local 39 did too.

    • @scouthmk2312
      @scouthmk2312 27 днів тому +5

      peace be with you..

    • @guymartz8262
      @guymartz8262 27 днів тому +10

      The business agent for local 158 told me there is nothing they could do and members didn't want me around. My last day I asked labor relations write everything down with a fellow steward present, I shook everyone's hand and walked out. My job is still vacant with a contractor from the steamfitters union doing it now. Had a job offer in a week and been there ever since. Shake the dust off your shoes and move on.

    • @skr2824
      @skr2824 27 днів тому

      Yet think of all the money they took from each paycheck. It’s mafia by another name!

    • @yoashka1
      @yoashka1 27 днів тому +5

      They owe u a refund for the dues u paid

    • @guymartz8262
      @guymartz8262 26 днів тому +1

      @@yoashka1 the job is still vacant so in effect I de-funded them. Seems popular nowadays

  • @mgpBLARG
    @mgpBLARG 27 днів тому +126

    I quit my union pipe welding job because the unions threw us under the bus during covid.
    They did less than nothing to help the workers they are being paid to represent.

    • @redherring9497
      @redherring9497 27 днів тому +6

      That’s a damn good job to throw in, but well done for standing your ground. Brother

    • @jimmyday656
      @jimmyday656 27 днів тому +6

      Were you surprised?

    • @patrickahaus6570
      @patrickahaus6570 27 днів тому +1

      They are telling us population is too high and we Trust them to keep us alive?

    • @redherring9497
      @redherring9497 27 днів тому +1

      Jobs available in Australia if you are still looking

    • @mgpBLARG
      @mgpBLARG 27 днів тому +2

      ​@@redherring9497 what are the women like Australia? I can't get a GF here to save my life. If I have to travel to the other side of the planet for a job and a wife, I'll do it.

  • @chrisnivo
    @chrisnivo 27 днів тому +26

    My union kicked me to the curb during covid. I lost my job of nearly 25 years for 15 months because the union backed by roughly 90% of the membership wanted us gone for refusing to get jabbed. I'll never forgive or forget this, I was effectively fined over $150,000 for my stance.
    It's awesome living in a country (Canada) where criminals have all the rights and citizens who work get treated worse than criminals especially if they think for themselves.

  • @BrockOBauma
    @BrockOBauma 26 днів тому +15

    My union does whatever the Democrat party tells them to.

  • @antonyperks9156
    @antonyperks9156 27 днів тому +81

    UNIONS WHAT A JOKE.

    • @bobby-ov9qn
      @bobby-ov9qn 27 днів тому +3

      The Union "teachers" are the biggest jokes.

  • @Agapy8888
    @Agapy8888 27 днів тому +97

    I don’t like unions. They don’t represent the worker.

    • @paulmryglod4802
      @paulmryglod4802 27 днів тому +17

      There was a time. Now they represent themselves

    • @jamesarmes3098
      @jamesarmes3098 27 днів тому

      Unions are in bed with the company and government. That's where the money is. They sold out long ago.

    • @reinsmano
      @reinsmano 27 днів тому +7

      @@paulmryglod4802 That’s how the cycle of institutions goes

    • @SynDC6
      @SynDC6 27 днів тому +6

      They represent the lazy and worst workers.

    • @kmeccat
      @kmeccat 26 днів тому +2

      Ironic, isn't it?

  • @balderdashery1
    @balderdashery1 27 днів тому +68

    Here in Canada where Unions are stronger, we saw them completely cave. They were bought off with money. My Union of Health Care in British Columbia, was no different. There were areas of hospitals and care homes that were contracted out, so the Province's Gov't said, "Hey we will give you (the union) all these contracted out workers and all the union dues that come with them......but they all have to take the jab." And that was it. I refused to be coerced and lost a great paying job. They are still requiring the jab here, with no end in sight.

    • @Dan-xo9ly
      @Dan-xo9ly 27 днів тому +7

      Such a dark time. They are criminals.

    • @mariepaule6197
      @mariepaule6197 27 днів тому +4

      You are exactly correct, unions are working hand in hand with the government. I’m also one of those terminated workers with the BC govt health care union. Have had a grievance in for 2 1/2 years and all the union does is dick around. I truly hope one day they all go down hard and fast

    • @marcoc2706
      @marcoc2706 26 днів тому +2

      The quality of health care in BC has declined so rapidly. So many good nurses were forced to leave.

  • @maryutz2643
    @maryutz2643 27 днів тому +20

    As someone who has worked for unions, I am not as optimistic about them as Dr. Wolff. It's time for workers' co-ops. Stop f-ing around. We will never fix this system within this system.

    • @susanmclane7781
      @susanmclane7781 27 днів тому +3

      I had a job for a short time with AFSCME. The woman who had held the position trained me and paid me the same money she was getting. I spent the first week straightening out the books she had totally effed up, then AFSCME told me I had to take less pay. Hahahaha, I said, and quit.

    • @jondspen
      @jondspen 26 днів тому +1

      Relying on someone else to make decisions and represent your wishes doesn't seem to work too well. Who would have thought nefarious people would use that model and hide behind it's legality/authority?

  • @anomalousanonymous
    @anomalousanonymous 26 днів тому +10

    Why would anyone believe that the Unions are not in bed with the corporations and the uniparty?

  • @leem9287
    @leem9287 27 днів тому +12

    My Wife lost her job over it and her Union didn’t give a crap. Told her to get the jab. We said fuck you 💪

  • @BeXEllenttoeachother
    @BeXEllenttoeachother 27 днів тому +42

    Unions are a racket. Change my mind.

    • @susanmclane7781
      @susanmclane7781 27 днів тому

      They're not supposed to be, but American unions have made themselves very comfy under corporate capitalism. Real unions are not rackets, are not run by suits who play golf with corporate CEOs, and not only organize their members but educate them about the economic system they live under. Here's a quote from Joe Bageant to you: Everything in this goddamn country is a racket. But Americans have been bought off with fancy refrigerators and ATVs and electronic junk.

    • @bullmoose5574
      @bullmoose5574 27 днів тому +2

      Well my union took my money told me to vote for Biden and yelled at me for asking for representation when they were in a meeting to get more shops. I was going to lose my job due to the vax mandate and they were focused on getting more shops so that...proves your point.

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      Your mind doesn't matter. What you think an employee should be to a company it works for is important.

  • @stupidplumbing2343
    @stupidplumbing2343 27 днів тому +32

    Too many people, no matter how often they step in shit, refuse to watch where they're walking.

  • @guythibodeau4976
    @guythibodeau4976 27 днів тому +36

    Unions stop caring and became a business. I dare you to look at your collective agreement and see how much titles and positions they created, which inflated the cost to run a union. It's more like a job creator on the backs of hard workers.

    • @joe-el7iw
      @joe-el7iw 27 днів тому

      unions got the mafia disease.

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому +1

      It's your job to get the union to run the way that's beneficial for you.

  • @jdee3421
    @jdee3421 27 днів тому +21

    Cornel West to Fauci on his youtube podcast: "...you have been very distinctive as a scientist because you're so deeply grounded in humanity and humanitarian sensibility...you know it's just so wonderful to see somebody who is such a unique combination of the sharpness of a scientific mind and the goldenness of a decent heart."

    • @SusanYeske701
      @SusanYeske701 27 днів тому +1

      Dang, West really did deep throat the boot didn't he? He's definitely going to get to work in the house. 😓😒

    • @parisloop6855
      @parisloop6855 27 днів тому +1

      Meanwhile, Fauci was testing drugs on orphans and cutting the throats of puppies. But Cornel bullshits Jimmy because West loves Jim Crow Joe so much.

    • @knokkelknekker
      @knokkelknekker 27 днів тому +1

      Wow! Just shows that Cornel West is not as smart and as informed as he should be. Even I, who sit in Norway, have noticed that there were large demonstrations against Fauci during the AIDS period many decades ago.
      The banners read: Fauci, you are killing us.
      Also shows that professors are not always so smart, Noam Chomsky wanted to lock up the unvaccinated.

    • @nwelsh84
      @nwelsh84 27 днів тому +7

      Verbal fellatio

    • @djmcnerney
      @djmcnerney 26 днів тому +3

      Our beloved Brother West got another one wrong!

  • @dirtymikeandtheboys7900
    @dirtymikeandtheboys7900 27 днів тому +47

    My union rep told me if I didn't vote for Biden i was voting against my paycheck.

    • @christmasanimals7119
      @christmasanimals7119 27 днів тому +5

      Did your rep do stand up comedy on the weekends?

    • @Youtubesucks15
      @Youtubesucks15 27 днів тому

      Sounds like a commie union

    • @jason1040us
      @jason1040us 26 днів тому +6

      FJB

    • @MR1977.
      @MR1977. 26 днів тому +2

      Mine asked me to vote for Jerry Nadler. That was the end of my participation with the union.

    • @rw4022
      @rw4022 26 днів тому

      I worked for the nurses union in California and never let them tell me who to vote for. They always supported every democrat politician and their failed policies. The u ions even backed prop 47 that increased the threshold to steal.

  • @richardthompson6366
    @richardthompson6366 27 днів тому +35

    Unions are run by activists, not workers, I preferred the mob.

    • @woundedwombmindoflilith278
      @woundedwombmindoflilith278 27 днів тому

      In NYC the italian/irish mafia controls the unions.

    • @MrMirville
      @MrMirville 27 днів тому

      American unions are mafias.

    • @Hunter-yj6zb
      @Hunter-yj6zb 26 днів тому +2

      The mob would have fought for us, the unions acted like enforcers for the mandates.

    • @jondspen
      @jondspen 26 днів тому +2

      At least the mob is honest with you instead of the "We're from the government and we're here to HELP!" People seem to now understand the silent part - HELP OURSELVES TO YOUR STUFF!

  • @Yucob
    @Yucob 27 днів тому +25

    YES. Unions failed us during COVID. I was working at a warehouse for Kroger they eventually fired me wrongfully in retaliation but the Teamsters Union although they wrote a letter they did not go to court or present a case on my behalf. I have had to represent myself since 2022 and am now in the higher courts fighting these large corporations by myself.

  • @brianbachmeier34
    @brianbachmeier34 27 днів тому +44

    "It’s easy to criticize me, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science."
    - Dr. Anthony Fauci

    • @tonyrosales915
      @tonyrosales915 27 днів тому

      Faucci's lungs must be fried from breathing the air in hell!

    • @SynDC6
      @SynDC6 27 днів тому

      Fauci represents murder

  • @guymartz8262
    @guymartz8262 27 днів тому +17

    "you don't need a formal conspiracy when like interests converge" - George Carlin

  • @danakowalski6448
    @danakowalski6448 26 днів тому +12

    The teachers union literally created a lot of the issues from the pandemic. Such nonsense.

  • @WinterSoldier-dy2qc
    @WinterSoldier-dy2qc 27 днів тому +29

    The IAFF sold firefighters down the river nationwide.

    • @MR1977.
      @MR1977. 26 днів тому

      The IAFF is in bed deep with the DemonRats.

  • @Matthew-fh4xo
    @Matthew-fh4xo 27 днів тому +15

    I worked in a pipe mill that almost exclusively made pipe for oil and gas drilling in 2020-2021. Our union backed Biden, and the VP of the company said in front of all of us that he couldn't vote for Trump, even if it meant that the mill closing down. Well Bidens first day in office he shut down the keystone pipeline and 3 months later, almost everyone lost their jobs. They kept a skeleton crew of maintenance workers. The sorry part was guys would still kiss the vp's ass even though he said he didn't give a damn about their jobs. I got called back to work about 8 months later and told them no thanks. It's crazy to find out how many guys actually went back to work for them.

    • @GR-zh4ol
      @GR-zh4ol 25 днів тому

      Americans are selfish people. All the big talk only happens when it doesn't affect them and their "families". That's how they get ya. You're under the spell of a mob. Everybody's pro-freedom, pro-choice, anti-corruption, anti-bad-guy, but when it hits them personally they fold.

  • @ancientclown
    @ancientclown 27 днів тому +54

    Unions are for themselves not the people...I was an actor in the 90's in Canada and never had more problems dealing with anyone than with 'OUR' Union.
    Never stood up for me and let Companies spell my name wrong in the credits and break contracts because they didn't want to 'Burn Bridges' and are constantly holding back money from me.
    They were a major contributing factor on me getting fed up with the corruption in the Industry and leaving...That and GOD asked me to go for a walk so we could talk.

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 27 днів тому +7

      Indeed..... union officials pay themselves well on the backs of the workers..... never trusted or jpined a union....

    • @ancientclown
      @ancientclown 27 днів тому

      @@orionxtc1119 As an actor for film & TV you are pretty much forced to...especially before there was any kind of 'INDY' market.

    •  27 днів тому

      IA, NABET and ACTRA are all corrupt monopolies.

  • @lrac88510
    @lrac88510 27 днів тому +58

    The American Postal Workers Union did fight the mandates

    • @veronicascott313
      @veronicascott313 27 днів тому +10

      I don't remember exactly how it went but their was a pattern of the biggest unions either caving or allowing firing/retiring then hiring. Either are a lost. In most cases loss of skilled workers is a huge problem right now. Nurses who don't know what's healthy (pharma trained). Planes in disrepair and for a long time flight crews that couldn't get you to your connection or keep up with your luggage.

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 27 днів тому +17

      Yeah, all government workers were exempted.

    • @bobby-ov9qn
      @bobby-ov9qn 27 днів тому +2

      @@slappy8941 Including the military?

    • @mftoms59
      @mftoms59 27 днів тому +7

      @@bobby-ov9qn No they were Dishonorably Discharged, The Military reversed its decision and allowed those discharged to re-enter the Military in late 2023. Most opted NOT to return and I don't blame them after being ostracized and dismissed.

    • @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074
      @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074 26 днів тому +1

      They were exempted. Nothing to fight. Duhhhh.

  • @amirfahmi6248
    @amirfahmi6248 27 днів тому +66

    If your leaders see nothing wrong with supporting genocide in Gaza, what makes you think they will treat you differently ?

    • @SkylarTrahan
      @SkylarTrahan 27 днів тому +8

      Well we’re talking about how unions are screwing over workers, what’s with the same copy paste comment?

    • @jennifergregory7461
      @jennifergregory7461 27 днів тому +3

      Dont care.

    • @peterlindberg1678
      @peterlindberg1678 26 днів тому +2

      ​@@SkylarTrahanI think you might be right about the copy and paste aspect, but curious how you fail to see the relevance.. ?

    • @studiobauhaus7740
      @studiobauhaus7740 26 днів тому

      @@SkylarTrahan if your government which tells the Unions what to do is supporting a genocide in Gaza what do you think they will tell the Unions to do to you if you get out of Line? They told the Unions to fire your ass if you dont take the jab.

    • @MR1977.
      @MR1977. 26 днів тому

      No one cares about Israel and Gaza outside of college kids. You don’t vote for the people that are supporting that so scream and cry all you want about it the rest of us adults have issues here at home that need to be addressed.

  • @zeljkomikulicic4378
    @zeljkomikulicic4378 27 днів тому +20

    Because unions work for government. They always works. Mostly.

  • @lrac88510
    @lrac88510 27 днів тому +23

    I’ve been In a retail union. The national Association of letter carriers, the American postal workers union, and I’ve even been in the Auto makers union. Then teamsters twice. Every one sold out the next generation

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 27 днів тому +4

      I never joined a union...... never trusted them

  • @MrJones-918
    @MrJones-918 27 днів тому +9

    Teamsters did NOTHING! I lost a 25 year career. Unions now are Just an extension of the company 😡

  • @CatEyes2020
    @CatEyes2020 27 днів тому +16

    Think about the law schools. These kids had mandatory bio-weapon injection so they couldn't go to class and not one of their professors gave them an assignment regarding the constitutionality of all of this... I have zero respect for these law schools

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 27 днів тому +8

    Truth-tellers are silenced, while the liars have their voices amplified. A crime against humanity.

  • @737tech
    @737tech 27 днів тому +6

    I had to leave United Airlines. The union did nothing.

  • @bunshapiro9091
    @bunshapiro9091 27 днів тому +22

    At least the postal union kind of did. Either way, i wasnt taking that bullshit shot.

    • @jondspen
      @jondspen 26 днів тому

      Oh look - another government organization that has congress by the balls. VA has readily given the middle finger to congress openly. Glad u guys were safe, but another cog in their machine. Just owe your current job existing to veterans past AND current suffering, but hey, breads buttered, what do I care if the VA secretly experiments on them - not my department - few bad apples - etc, right?

  • @alexandru5369
    @alexandru5369 27 днів тому +7

    Unions did this too themselves by basically acting like corporations.

  • @edweirdmitchell3095
    @edweirdmitchell3095 27 днів тому +7

    Unions and management got married years ago and gave birth to a huge middle finger made of bugs. This will be our dinner soon.

  • @CMfuell
    @CMfuell 27 днів тому +7

    Canadian here. Wife works as an MLT in the regional hospital here. Public employee with a Union.
    Contract ran out in 2019 and wasn't negotiated till well into covid lockdowns. They got 1%. Less than inflation.
    They literally got a pay CUT!

  • @TheWhiteRabbit55
    @TheWhiteRabbit55 27 днів тому +9

    Unions are done

  • @pabloshammer9881
    @pabloshammer9881 27 днів тому +21

    As a carpenter I would never join the union. They have become to political and bureaucratic for their worth.

  • @ricky4673
    @ricky4673 27 днів тому +8

    Unions were never the answer anyway... It is actual protections in law. But the legislatures only care about taking our rights, not protecting.

    • @TheCarnivoreSoprano
      @TheCarnivoreSoprano 26 днів тому

      Here's the thing, no one can take a right from you. However, a privilege can be taken at any time. We do not have rights.

    • @ricky4673
      @ricky4673 26 днів тому

      @@TheCarnivoreSoprano They can and have been taken. You need others to protect your rights because it is an idea. An idea is a culture and must be protected to exist. We have been poisoned and made docile. We have been distracted and devided. They are systemically taking out rights by way of deffinition and excuse of national security and our kids will forget we had them to begin with because many have ignored it.

  • @jamesarmes3098
    @jamesarmes3098 27 днів тому +6

    No, no, no. The unions didn't learn any lessons because they have sold out.

  • @krystabelle36
    @krystabelle36 27 днів тому +5

    Unions have a special interest in maintaining animosity between employees and employers

  • @jnyfumare
    @jnyfumare 27 днів тому +8

    Local 6 Hotel Workers FAILED BIG TIME!

  • @mzaki4949
    @mzaki4949 27 днів тому +10

    C'MON everyone knows the unions don't work for the employees.

  • @drewid3876
    @drewid3876 27 днів тому +4

    My teachers union totally caved on the mandate issue… I went on unpaid leave for over a month and they were in cahoots with the government to silence dissent.

  • @pavlovsdog5020
    @pavlovsdog5020 27 днів тому +9

    Only the workers of England union stuck up for their members here in the UK
    They promised to back their members all the way to the high court if needed but they were the only one who did

  • @chickmcgee1000
    @chickmcgee1000 27 днів тому +8

    Very few labor unions are in business to help the dues paying worker. They’re as much on the grift as the politicians they’re connected to.

  • @m33lover
    @m33lover 27 днів тому +12

    Stay strong...Support the working class.

    • @Rampart.X
      @Rampart.X 27 днів тому +4

      Nice piece of sarcasm

  • @barrybueler3356
    @barrybueler3356 27 днів тому +8

    Lost a lot of respect for our health services teachers etc over the last few yrs

  • @fracyoulongtime8123
    @fracyoulongtime8123 26 днів тому +6

    Unions here in TX are useless! The union members don’t have PTO, cheap insurance or even equal pay to their non union counterparts! And it costs those union members $200 a month to be part of it! It’s nuts!

  • @billiamc1969
    @billiamc1969 27 днів тому +4

    I'm self employed so therefore my union is the best in America

  • @heavysighs
    @heavysighs 27 днів тому +9

    Air Traffic Controller’s UNION stood up. NATCA When the flights get grounded, they always cave to Air Traffic Controllers.. There are less than 10,000 though.

  • @slappy8941
    @slappy8941 27 днів тому +6

    The purpose of the unions is to support the uniparty. Everything else is just cover.

  • @AlexXxsID
    @AlexXxsID 27 днів тому +6

    «Labor trumps capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor." - Abraham Lincoln ($5). The time will come when the local working class will understand its true power and importance in the mechanism of business! But they will need the protection of local and honest patriot senators so that local production does not move to a foreign country under the protection of bloodthirsty TNCs.

  • @jennifergregory7461
    @jennifergregory7461 26 днів тому +5

    Our union wanted us to vote for bernie. How sick is that.

    • @GR-zh4ol
      @GR-zh4ol 25 днів тому

      Which Bernie? Killary endorser Bernie, or pre-black-eye Bernie?

  • @beeroclock7913
    @beeroclock7913 27 днів тому +4

    All Unions in Australia also went very quiet during the pandemic.

  • @rickboy7290
    @rickboy7290 27 днів тому +6

    Yeah i almost lost my job. My union did jack shht to protect me. And my sister who is from new york with a city job was forced to take the vax or lose her job AND 16 years worth of accumated benefits. She took it. Had a mental break down and hasnt been the same since. I hate both the government, unions or any group that has the authority to force their will on others. Unions and Coop problems start when you want to do things differently from the collective and they can be overwhelmingly cruel. The line betwen opressed and opressor is very thin. Its why i love what our constitution bring to the table. It protects the individual from government but also the mob.

  • @Lon1001
    @Lon1001 26 днів тому +3

    My union not protecting my rights was 10x more emotionally difficult, demoralizing and traumatic than my employer that was demanding I put poison in me to keep my job. Union outright refused to accept my stance, said they legally were required to defend me if I formally filed a grievance but only after I was disciplined for non compliance, and that they supported the company's choice to mandate it (how would someone get fair representation from their union if the union has already taken the stance of the employer??). If I was in a career where I could easily find work where it t didn't mandate the jab I could have exercised my rights that way but in my field all the work is with major employers that roll over for big brother. So I took my risk with the poison rather than the certain harm to my ability to provide for my family.

  • @antoniolopez7470
    @antoniolopez7470 26 днів тому +4

    My Union didn't support me at all. Fire Department union is a joke

  • @4gottenUFCfan
    @4gottenUFCfan 26 днів тому +4

    Unions # one priority is there union dues. They take your money and spend it on whatever political issue they want, regardless of how the members feel.

  • @kevinm7523
    @kevinm7523 27 днів тому +12

    Unions are great at first, BUT then the top of the union gets corrupt and in order to allow the top to stay in power the top works with the Corp and the govt to just keep the lower class happy with ever growing paychecks that negatively effect the customer

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      Corporations want to pay less, not more to workers. Get a pay cut if you think it's morally correct. Higher paid workers are customers.

  • @boblippert2724
    @boblippert2724 27 днів тому +3

    My union didn't do shit to protect those of us who didn't want it. They even defended the company's supposed right to force us to report private medical information to management

  • @malcolmnicoll1165
    @malcolmnicoll1165 26 днів тому +2

    At no point in history have the people forcing others into compliance been the good guys..

  • @warren7389
    @warren7389 27 днів тому +5

    It was the same here in Australia. The unions did nothing to support the workers.
    The construction union boss said he would support his members but did a complete U turn a week later.leading to a huge number of union members and others laying siege to the union office building and leading to a lot of violence.
    The nurses union did nothing. They could have done something. Medical staff in the UK stood up to the government trying to mandate vaccines and the government had to back down. Aussie unions could have done the same and they had plenty of time to prepare as vaccines didn't get here until 6 months after they had been rolled out in the UK.

    • @jondspen
      @jondspen 26 днів тому

      Good point. Let's reflect - NURSES union (as well as the NURSES) did nothing. Here in US - we had our doctors and nurses filming fake tictok grief videos or big dance numbers. OMG - is that what the medical community is going to be remembered for? I just typed that off the cuff, but had to pause and reflect that might be their legacy.

  • @HellInAHandBasket45
    @HellInAHandBasket45 26 днів тому +5

    The unions became what they fought against. I worked for a large transit agency and could tell you stories…..

  • @kalashnikov1343
    @kalashnikov1343 27 днів тому +4

    The best union has always been an unofficial agreement between the employees, like a group chat or a third space where they can commune.

  • @tylercampion2353
    @tylercampion2353 27 днів тому +8

    Never lay down

  • @JoeyRapps1
    @JoeyRapps1 27 днів тому +4

    This guy is as naive as one could possibly be. I'm a CWA member and the national leadership SOLD EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OUT on the mystery injection issue. The mantra on the picket lines went from "Fight Corporate Greed!" to "Take the Big Pharma Corporation shot or you're fired" , "we can't win" blah blah blah, tucked in their tails and ran away when confronted. This is what happened and will CONTINUE to happen unless a "bottom up" change occurs: The collective Union Leadership is wrapped up Lock, Stock and Barrel by the D-party and they all made their deals up top and i found out the hard way THAT is who they work for when it actually counts. Whatever growth in membership the professor is referring to will be handed over to politicians, just like how Bernie moved to hand over his supporters to Killary in 2016. It's all a corrupt, top-down trick. If a Republican tried to mess with the leadership's pie, they would call for so many rallies and other forms of resistance it would make your head spin. But that didn't happen. Instead we (the dues-paying members) got complete silence, ignored and intimidated to fall in line with the clown show. They would wish everyone forget their betrayal but I couldn't if I wanted to.

  • @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74
    @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74 27 днів тому +1

    The APWU stood up and won! That was my Union before I retired. I was a shop steward for 7 years, and proud of it.

  • @jonathanmitchell9886
    @jonathanmitchell9886 26 днів тому +3

    Everybody caved: unions, schools, churches, individuals. Everybody stayed home; everybody took the jab; everybody meekly complied. When they had the chance to fight, they didn't. Pondering this painfully obvious fact should scare the hell out of us.

    • @GR-zh4ol
      @GR-zh4ol 25 днів тому

      Not me. When my boss said he wanted to see proof of vaccination next week, I said "I'm not getting vaccinated" in front of everybody at the company. I had a job that no one else was going to come in and do at the drop of a hat. I was not replaceable (in the short term). When you have a job that is real and you do it right (sorry white collars) YOU have all the power. But that's not why I did it. I did it because it's wrong for them to dictate personal matters. They didn't fire me of course, but I quit a year later after I got my ducks in a row. I don't want to work for anybody that even THINKS FOR A MOMENT that that is something you can do. I did my job professionally and kept a good demeanor at work for my remaining year. Then I didn't tell them why I was leaving. When people realize their own power, you don't have to go around justifying yourself. If everybody did this, all the sociopaths and psychopaths would soon be completely isolated, exiled, with nobody looking at or talking to them. How long do you think their sick behavior is going to last under those conditions?
      The sad part is, americans want what the sociopaths and psychopaths have, have no spine,and will sacrifice nothing - that part you are right about jonathan.
      By the way, I'm NOT the kind of person that wants to draw attention to myself or shows a lot of grit in groups of people. But this was a bridge too far, and I had already made up my mind I would not rollover. You can imagine the effect that had on everybody at work when the guy that everybody gets along with and likes, but mostly sticks to himself, suddenly speaks up in front of everybody and says "NO".

  • @rogerparkhurst5796
    @rogerparkhurst5796 27 днів тому +3

    NY State nurses tried but the State threatened them.

  • @user-kf7wm6kt6o
    @user-kf7wm6kt6o 27 днів тому +3

    Same thing happening in the UK, the two main parties in both countries have had it too good for too long, just look at the trash being allowed to parade around with their foreign flags demanding everything for free, bloody sickening..

  • @HaleyOneLove
    @HaleyOneLove 26 днів тому +3

    My union in Canada was useless and wouldn't stand up for anyone!

  • @user-wb6mh9pe1j
    @user-wb6mh9pe1j 27 днів тому +3

    I am a Union member of the IBEW for 37 years in Canada. It has been in decline as the gentleman said for a long time and I haven't been to a union meeting in years. When you go on the job the fear is is unbelievable. You get one side that shows up praying that they get their EI or UI and barely say a word while the other side plays the game with peoples lives. Don't get me wrong there are good guys but it is one sad state of affairs. As the Professor said things do change. The unfortunate thing is just how bad were these injections. There may very well be a huge shortage of Construction workers in all fields. Times they are a changing. That is for sure...

  • @Peter-ww9bw
    @Peter-ww9bw 27 днів тому +6

    In Australia the unions turned on there own including punching on at there offices

  • @MegaDavyk
    @MegaDavyk 26 днів тому +3

    Unions showed their true colors during covid.

  • @edwardbearjames2916
    @edwardbearjames2916 27 днів тому +2

    They all need charged with intentional fraud

  • @warriorinagarden5624
    @warriorinagarden5624 27 днів тому +2

    I.A.T.S.E. Failed to protect me from losing my job at a major sports arena. I was fired for "failure to disclose vaccination status."

  • @rogerparkhurst5796
    @rogerparkhurst5796 27 днів тому +2

    Unfortunate for the Unions was some leadership that had their handouts first before the membership. Shameful that led to a distrust.

  • @seanbonella
    @seanbonella 27 днів тому +7

    Unions????
    What unions........???????

  • @blues1331
    @blues1331 26 днів тому +2

    My union rolled over at lightning speed. They've all become activist groups with no interest served to those who pay their bills. To hell with unions

  • @mats7492
    @mats7492 26 днів тому +4

    Not just in the US..
    Happened here in germany as well..
    my union caved in

  • @drtybrdy75
    @drtybrdy75 27 днів тому +3

    I was a victim of this in nyc. I had a good job that I loved. Now I have another career, it is a good job, but not as lucrative.

  • @underthetrees4780
    @underthetrees4780 26 днів тому +3

    Unions exist to enrich attorneys, nothing more.

  • @Vladviking
    @Vladviking 27 днів тому +4

    I haven't seen the union that won't screw their rank-and-file members for politics or greed.

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      What's your alternative?

    • @Vladviking
      @Vladviking 26 днів тому

      @@nutsndoltz Why do I have to have to have the alternative? Sounds like my FIL Don't matter what they do or how bad they are, vote Democrat they fo' the people.

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      @@VladvikingIt's a responsibility, particularly if someone has a family they want to prosper. Without a solution, the elite owners will impose compensation at or even below subsistence without job security or safe working conditions. Complaining of political problems professional detractors also aren't solving won't excuse the pitfalls of being a docile worker.

    • @Vladviking
      @Vladviking 26 днів тому

      @@nutsndoltz Sounds very union of you

    • @nutsndoltz
      @nutsndoltz 26 днів тому

      @@Vladviking You should listen to your FIL more.

  • @etherdetroit1977
    @etherdetroit1977 26 днів тому +4

    Unions learned their lesson this time. He really means it.😂👌

  • @cliffordmaxwell9802
    @cliffordmaxwell9802 27 днів тому +4

    Yes, two of my favorite voices exposing the lies and spreading the truth no matter how painful and inconvenient it may be. Thank you, Professor Richard D Wolff, and of course Jimmy Dore. Always a thorn in the side of Propaganda BS!

  • @Glock_Lesn4r
    @Glock_Lesn4r 27 днів тому +3

    Mine sure did. They said vote blue down the line, gave us a list just in case, and said if the hotel requires you to get the shot to go back to work you do it or be repplaced. They still ask you to wear a mask on the dispatch notes.

  • @BoRaiChoWins
    @BoRaiChoWins 27 днів тому +2

    And now you know why i dislike unions.

  • @marielux7372
    @marielux7372 26 днів тому +2

    The unions seemed corrupt as hell

  • @morrisa2a
    @morrisa2a 24 дні тому +1

    Thank you for having this guy on your show and exposing Marxists as idiots

  • @geo525252
    @geo525252 27 днів тому +7

    Follow the money and you'll find a union boss got paid to play.

  • @GRADE8BOLT
    @GRADE8BOLT 27 днів тому +3

    Why did unions fold well the unions got envelopes of $$$$$$$

  • @electrolytics
    @electrolytics 27 днів тому +2

    Failed? It let people stay home and get paid anyways. How is that failing? The teachers loved it.