You’re very right. Power is always going to corrupt, I’ve noticed the very same things with my union. It all creates an environment where the best potential leaders are reluctant to run for positions. Who wants to be chief when everyone blames the chief? Its a thankless job if you’re good, and it can be advantageous if you’re crooked. In fighting is more common than fighting with management. Its mostly politics and games.

But you’ve still got to take the union over the corporate. As much as your “leaders” may have done to steal from you, union leadership is more your ally than corporate leadership. They’re going to want to keep good wages and benefits, things which benefit even the shortest term employee. The company’s position is naturally to pay you as little as possible to keep you productive.

There is too much danger in negotiating alone, even if your only accomplices are crooks. 10 years of a good job was probably better than 10 years at Walmart.

More importantly, consider the structure of your organization. Somewhere the documentation about getting vested was filed, they may have “forgot” to tell you, but the terms of your contract would have been available if workers requested it. As well, if you’re unhappy in a union, you can run for steward and do something about it. In a company the only way to move up is toe the line, there is no democracy. I’ll take a corrupt democracy over a dictatorship any day.
Although i must admit, “fishy buisness” with even the voting process at my union seems prevalent. If things are bad enough democracy is lost even in the union.

Planning a post on the ‘feeding our senses’ thing. Creeps me out how there seem to be fewer and fewer flavours available. I remember candy and drink flavours when i was a kid that don’t seem to exist anymore. I know they’re just chemicals, but producing 1 thing will aways be cheaper than 5 kinds. Its in corporate’s best interest to ween us off diversity in our sense experiences. You won’t suffer any loss if you honestly don’t know what you’re missing- you know, like starving children in Africa not missing caviar since they’ve never tasted it.

I’ll be eating cold turkey all next week.

In general they feed our senses and keep us from thinking about much more.

We eat from Corporate, they have us down. They are sweet, enticing, promising and supply.

Imagine a group of consumers gone cold turkey; a total threat to western values.

The thing with two cents is that its supposed to be yours. The regular voter hasn’t been able to bring his actual opinion to the table since scheming politicos bonded together and created partisan politics.

Makes a regular 2 cents voter look a real fool.

Ain’t that a bitch…

Consumers are one; one big world of consumers. Hail the Organizations, the leaders and founding fathers of our One World nation.

You are an Individual to yourself and a few people around you but not where it matters.

Democracy as a game has been won by capital and it sure ain’t the size of your paycheck. Money-bought-knowledge-to-make-money has bought you OUT.

Lets study the Grecian classics for solace.

You don’t need to be fearful. The US is not threatened by ANY foreign country. You waste trillions fighting pointless foreign wars instead of building your infrastructure.

Your country is failing because too many people in your country don’t understand the world and are shitting their pants that some malicious force is coming to kill them. They close their brains and wait for someone else to figure out the solution. Your government sends its forces out to destroy countries so that American companies can make billions rebuilding it and claiming the assets. How much of that money do you think you get? Remember corporations wised up and went global 20 years ago, only the masses are dumb enough to still consider themselves nationalists first.

Do you know what “consistency” means?
Union members have what they’ve got because they fought for it.

Fear is the basic foundation in the armed forces. Without fear, our armies would be destroyed!! Don’t fall into the void! Be afraid! Fight for what is yours! Don’t just expect it!

But the barriers are more social than institutional. If %100 of your staff wants a union and you can’t get away with firing the lot- you’re going to have a union. If you do fire everyone, but all your new hires are equally interested in unionizing, you can either close up shop or get with the program.

America was a good idea gone terribly wrong by way of a greedy elite; somebody call Karl Marx to make him feel better.

Governments are completely infected by corporate money, we can no longer rely on our governments to stand up for us. You’ll have way more luck bettering your situation voting in a union than voting in your country. Unions are the last only hope for the working class and they are on the decline because most of the population is made up of morons. The rest are discussing African starvation over caviar and cocktails.