Is it time to start organizing labor via secret societies again?

[gordonzola]

I read the paper every day but I try not to let it get to me. I fully believe that the capitalist press exists in part to demoralize us. Still, there was a quote in the article about a failed organizing drive at Wal-Mart that got to me.

Cody Fields, who earns $8.10 Per hour after two years at the garage, said he originally backed the union "because we need a change" but said the antiunion videos* were effective. "it’s just a bunch of brainwashing, but it kind of worked," he said.

Sigh.

Oddly, this quote only appears in the print edition of today’s Chron. Not in the online version or the NY Times online version where it was syndicated from.



*Shown as part of a daily anti-union campaign by Wal-Mart’s full-time anti-union organizers.

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Modern capitalist morality.

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

If you tell people that they work for a company that is exporting jobs to a brutal dictatorship, weakening the dollar, lowering wages in the community, abusing workers, and overpaying their executives, they shrug and say "I got mine."

But if you ask them to a join a union, suddenly they would never sully their hands with such rotten scum.