Ask Lemmygrad

806 readers

106 users here now

A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml

GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml

SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml

QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml

yogthos@lemmygrad.ml

Questions about trade unions (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Vagabond@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Trade unions seem like a handy way for workers to organise, albeit with some exceptions, like say cop unions.

What place do they have in socialist society? They exist in at least Cuba and China, but Solidarity in Poland enjoyed CIA funding.
What benefits do they offer workers in these societies that aren't already offered by a socialist state, or do they serve a different role?
How does one convince people of the benefit of trade unions in spite of their fear of corruption of said unions in non-socialist states?

Again, I could be going about it all wrong but yeah.

Thanks!

top 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On the corruption point: corruption is possible in any organization. It's a concern, but there's nothing about unions that make them more prone to it than anything else.

[–] Vagabond@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Excellent point!

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Swirling in my head are a lot of comments, thoughts, and questions about labor unions, especially in the imperial core, and even more especially in Burgerland. All I’ll say now is: shaky critical support for anticommunist yellow unions, which is what virtually all Burgerland unions are. I’m curious what modernish-day Marxist/ML thinkers and/or books there are on the topic.

[–] Vagabond@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Oeh new term noted, thanks. Are the Starbucks unions emerging yellowed yet? Some pretty young people leading them I hear, wonder if they've started off toothless due to inexperience.