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Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

"Fiscal progressivism" that transfers wealth from the Northern middle class via federal taxes to build bridges and dams and roads in the South that they could and should have built themselves is not progressivism. It's just regionalist welfare chauvinism.

Well, it was not only infraestructure. It was also banking, regulation, etc. Remmeber who wrote the Glass-Steagall Act: two southerns. It was all on southern interests (like free trade), one can say. Let's remember that the 'Old Right'of Harry Byrd appeared just after the Wagner National Labor Relations Act.

This really isn't all that shocking or unprecedented.

When interest groups that want to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, abolish the inheritance tax and make it easier to dump coal ash and fracking fluid in public waterways try to prevent people who oppose those things from getting elected, they don't say, "State Senator Smith's problem is that he wants you to have healthcare in retirement and have water that's safe to drink." They say, "State Senator Smith is a radical liberal elitist who wants to take away your guns, abort babies, and stand with those who kneel during the national anthem."

Israel/Palestine simply isn't a priority one way or another for the overwhelming majority of people, and the people for whom it is are not persuadable. So you focus on getting the politicians who agree with you on that issue elected or defeated via other means.

     Porn is usually purchased online and guns usually aren't. This makes a massive difference in the potential of such a policy to discourage gun sales, as cash gun sales are much more feasible than cash porn sales.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

"Fiscal progressivism" that transfers wealth from the Northern middle class via federal taxes to build bridges and dams and roads in the South that they could and should have built themselves is not progressivism. It's just regionalist welfare chauvinism.

Reconstruction should never have ended. The US should have focused on actually building real solid infrastructure in the South after the Civil War...

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Rush had serious reach for his time. And many of his views were and are still reflected across the American right today, from high level politicians on down. Now imagine that but in a country where the right's base is made up of young religious radicals and not old boomers. Future isn't looking too great huh?

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

"Fiscal progressivism" that transfers wealth from the Northern middle class via federal taxes to build bridges and dams and roads in the South that they could and should have built themselves is not progressivism. It's just regionalist welfare chauvinism.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Maybe it's a sign that companies have learned to treat their employees so well that a majority of employees do not look on management as enemies and they don't need a union to be respected.

Or maybe, Mercedez Benz is more comfortable dealing with European Unions vs. US Unions.

As I said already, European Unions are FAR more cooperative. They have far less things to hassle about.

And they practice sectorial barganing which covers entire industries rather than the enterprise System in the US.

I wonder (seriously) if Rudy may have fled the country.  His life is pretty much in ruins if he stays in the U.S.

Perhaps his good friends from Russia took him out for a nice cup of calming tea?

CIA, other spy agencies told White House about Rudy Giuliani's dealings with alleged Russian agents (2020)

A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence (2023

Also unlike the US, European Unions practice sectorial barganing where agreements cover an entire industry, unlike the US where a Union like the UAW would negotiate with each and every company.

Most experts would say that Sectorial Barganing is far more better.

That's why another reason I think mercedez benz might be slightly more hesitant to work with a US Unions.

They're not comfortable with the type of union negotiation that is common in the US.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Maybe it's a sign that companies have learned to treat their employees so well that a majority of employees do not look on management as enemies and they don't need a union to be respected.