PROTECT UNIONISM AND FIRE LYNCH

Unions are crucial for survival of society

This thing in New York with the police is turning out to be a double tragedy. The tragic death of two police officers at the hands of a lunatic over racial strife is one of the tragedies made worse by over-interpretation on both sides. Just because racial tension is again banner news does not mean it is getting worse. To believe that would be to believe open discussion about thorny issues is not good, which of course is nonsense.  The second tragedy is the strife over policing led by unions leaders.

In previous post, I called fort the firing of Patrick Lynch, the president of one of the five unions involved; that wish hasn’t changed. There seems to be tendency for union members to vote for vocal leaders who act like Lynch acts. In a public rant, this ridiculous man blamed the Mayor of New York City for the murder of the two officers. To add fuel to the fire, Republican operatives with an eye on future elections, jumped on the back of the progressive mayor with the ironic twist that they, as rigid law and order conservatives who support police offices put themselves in a position of supporting unions which they hate including public serves unions. As a student of political behavior, I do not find this at all as a strange way for conservative to act. I am cynical enough to believe they will lie with impunity to achieve there political objective. Nevertheless, we should keep our focus on the union leader and the damage he is doing to the entire union movement.

Aside from the fact they are essential for the working class to function and are critical to survival of society, unions are out of favor. This clearly is the result of a massive effort by the economic elite to trash labor unions and make working people submissive to their every wish and demand. Part of the propaganda campaign focuses on the evil part unions play in protecting bad, lazy, and incompetent workers—the unions should work to fire and not protect such people members or not!

In the police force, there are bullies and race baiters who the Mayor should fire and in some cases persecute. There are also good men and women, who make a mistake or are falsely accused; the unions should go to the mat to protect them. Patrick Lynch is a classic example of someone who sees the dues of a few bad members exceeds the harms they are doing to the union movement and especially those who need the union to protect them. The Lynch form of misdirected leadership, really malfeasance, in union leadership will continue until the rank and file membership sees the harm such leaders are doing to the overall scheme of things and vote to fire people like him. 

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