I feel a lot of the old union reps don’t want to fight anymore. They just want their pay check and peace at work. I want them to ruffle some feathers and push for strikes. Will it hurt me financially? yes, in the short term. The abolishment of the CFMEU by the current government just shows we are losing everything to the boss; our rights, our time, our political parties. Fuck the boss.
Self-organising within the rank and file membership is so important for building and maintaining militancy. People within the formal union bureacracies simply have different incentives to the rank and file.
I feel a lot of the old union reps don’t want to fight anymore. They just want their pay check and peace at work. I want them to ruffle some feathers and push for strikes. Will it hurt me financially? yes, in the short term. The abolishment of the CFMEU by the current government just shows we are losing everything to the boss; our rights, our time, our political parties. Fuck the boss.
Self-organising within the rank and file membership is so important for building and maintaining militancy. People within the formal union bureacracies simply have different incentives to the rank and file.