Yesterday I had a meeting in the management floor of the Vaad HaPoel, the Israeli Workers Union. The meeting was agitated as people interrupted and left the table, phones and messages, some big drama was playing outside of which I was unaware. Then I understood that the union leadership of the Railway Company (pic.) had been sacked en masse. I assumed that the Ministry did it (it is a Government owned company) as there is a conflict regarding Bombardier wagons, that need less personnel. The Union had vetoed the purchase and the Railways has to pay large penalties to the French. But no. It was the Histadrut (the national union) that had intervened the Railway Union and sacked the delegates and designed a more pliable leadership. The 2000 railway workers decided to retire from the Histadrut and joined a competing, more combative Union. The new Union - "Power to the Workers" - is "democratic" - which is almost synonym of communist. This is a battle of historic consequences.
I hope my project will be not affected by the war between the unions.
6 comments:
I'm glad they got rid of that vile ape-woman.
When I went to Israel a long time ago, the Histadrut was on strike.
The airport was mildly chaotic.
Anon.
No, IHTG, they did not get rid of the ape woman. She is on their back and 2000 railway workers are with her.
I added a pic of the union leader. After googling her image, I arrived to the conclusion that she is no beauty queen but an ordinary proletarian, and that the media purposefully only publishes pictures that show her in a very bad light. Or photoshop the pics to make her face more unattractive than nature made her. The media lies and manipulates.
It's not her physical appearance that bothers me. It's the vulgarity that comes out of her mouth.
Roosevelt was opposed to the unionization of government workers. He felt that unions could equalize bargaining power between workers and private employers but in the government sector the unions and the politicians would both conspire together to screw the taxpayers. And he was right on the latter point. On the former he was wrong - unions have driven into bankruptcy almost every private industry they have got their hands on (at least in the US). One of the rules of being a good parasite is that you do not kill your host. Unions are bad parasites.
K
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