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Published by Roger Snyder
May
15
[From Wired News]
By Tony Long|
The Luddite
I was raised in a union house. My father was a passionate supporter of the labor movement and I’ve never forgotten that the union helped feed and clothe me when I was a kid.
Most of my professional life has been spent as a member of a union (The Newspaper Guild) and I’m under no illusion that the working class would be better off had things been left to the largesse of the bosses, or to the vagaries of a cutthroat, free-market meritocracy. Regardless of the industry, virtually all of the workplace comforts and benefits we take for granted today exist solely because of battles fought and won long ago by once-powerful unions.
Forty years ago, nearly one private-sector worker in three belonged to a union. Today, that number has dwindled to around 10 percent and there’s little to suggest that a revival is nigh. Although unions remain fairly strong in the blue-collar world, that world is shrinking. (Can you say “technology”?) Consequently, labor unions don’t wield the political clout they used to.
Continue reading Tech Workers of the World, Unite at Wired News
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