They did it! Get ready to watch the dominoes fall.
Such a great development. We can talk all we want, but votes like this one are where the rubber actually hits the road in terms of shifting power from capital to labor.
Kinda ironic, isn’t it? The whole union push started because VW’s joint works council said “We get that it’s impossible to have worker’s representation in China, but the US? Why don’t our US plants have shop floor councils?”. VW then first moved towards simply instituting worker’s representation: Have them elect people, give them board seats, but US law apparently outlaws that as it considers it a yellow union. So VW started to reach out to unions, “don’t you want to organise?”, unions then did and… besides general anti-union sentiment, workers said “what’s there to complain about VW bosses are fair, sensible, and listen to us”. That’s because elsewhere in the world there’s workers sitting on boards firing bad bosses you numpty.
The propaganda in Southern exploitative shithole states runs deep. Exploitative labor relationships with a touch of Stockholm syndrome are truly “Southern heritage.”
Yes, and those exploitative labor relationships so popular in the South serve to reproduce an embedded social structure that favors the usual suspects. Pic stolen from an excellent piece in the NYT yesterday from Jamelle Bouie.
