If the Union Members are going to not support themselves then why should I continue to support them?

[KharmaTrain]

44. Unions Are Not A Monolith...Solidarity Has Been A Problem For A Long Time

The Wisconsin vote highlighted the rift between public and private sector unions. The private sector doesn't have the securities and protections the public unions do and this has cause growing annimosity. While you saw firefighters and teachers and snowplough drivers, you didn't see a lot of teamsters or steel workers or other private sector unions at the rallies.

The corporates have long used the divide and conquer...pointing to other unions doing better or abuses and have turned many people not only away from unions but anti-union. Unions didn't help themselves by being very inclusive over the years with their own infighting and failing to stand strong to the onslaught of downscaling and off shoring that's occured. We haven't seen large-scale strikes like ones that paralyized this country in the 30s...or even one union respecting another one's picket lines anymore. We're in an age of everyone for themselves and this works against the concept of unionizing...and we see people regularly voting against their own interests out of petty spite.

The union movement needs a revitilization. Wisconsin showed how its political power has diminished and that it needs to get its message out to a whole new generation who don't understand what unions can do for them...