tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post3361674580487113467..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: United We Bargain, Divided We BegAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-59657438364931476812011-03-26T14:14:12.816-04:002011-03-26T14:14:12.816-04:00A corporation is an organizational, operational, a...A corporation is an organizational, operational, and economic collectivity. It is not a single person acting without reference to collective goals and corporate policies. <br /><br />I find the notion that workers must act towards and within corporations (collective entities) entirely as isolates, as if a worker shares no common interests with other workers in the corporation, challenging. <br /><br />It's sorta like telling workers that, once they have fabricated chains, they each must chain themselves to their work place and never notice that they are chained to the corporation's exclusive benefit.Pitch313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-43331189718514946222011-03-25T21:23:26.806-04:002011-03-25T21:23:26.806-04:00We have long taught American history by the Great ...We have long taught American history by the Great Man theory. We teach of Andrew Carnegie and his libraries, but children don't hear about the ordering of the Pinkertons to fire on striking steel workers. We don't teach about Labor. Two generations since the Triangle Fire have grown up expecting weekends off, health insurance, paid vacations and retirement benefits. But they weren't taught how those benefits came to be expected, what those benefits cost the earlier generations. All they heard was the Horatio Alger myths, and so they stood by or actively helped to weaken unions and group negotiation in this nation. And now we are all suffering.Lavanahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295089071497942411noreply@blogger.com