Reply #84: I posted at the end of this thread but I want to jump

[alaine]

in and say that unions have many of the same problems with racism and sexism that society as a whole has, and maybe this is where some anti-union sentiment may come from. "Class Action" is book written about the stoy of Lois Jenson, a woman who was subjected to 15 years of sexual harassment, and sometimes sexual assault, on a job working for a mining company. The case was settled a few years ago, and one of the things that delayed it and made it so hard to prosecute was the oath union members take upon entry into the union with regards to never betraying their "union brothers". In the end there were about 4 or 5 women in the class action suit, and Jenson won, but the toll on her was great, I believe she is now on disability for PTSD. And recently on C-span a man arguing in favor of slavery reparations joked that the UAW was known in some parts among Blacks as "U Ain't White". He was responding to a (white male) caller who said that his mostly white male union members would try to run Black men off the union jobs, but then spent the rest of the time complaining about "lazy n------ who don't want to work."