Reply #47: funny thing about unions

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They were kinda ruined by Gompers in my eyes. They took for themselves rather than fighting for the working class. I am kinda wishy washy about my own battle since I was only battling for myself. Still, when I quit the one temp job, they hurried to assure the new temp that he would get hired.
In the Kraft plant where I was a temp, there was talk of unions. So much so that the company gave an anti-union presentation. Some of what I heard was that workers thought the union was going to be kinda helpless. My view was that the union would be for the people who already had the jobs I wanted and would probably do nothing for all the temps working there often doing the same job (or the heavy lifting and messier part of the same area).
In a union plant where I worked as a contract-janitor (and then as a temp where I got laid off after 6 days) the 2nd shift was posting signs criticizing the union for the vacation they got. Like they were getting screwed because of the union rather than because of management. Sorta like people here, and Bartcop too, will tear into Democrats for being doormats instead of tearing into Republicans for being fascist corporate bastards.