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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
