Organized Labor Has Real Power. The Media Wants You to Think Otherwise
Channel: Richard Mellor
Date: 2023-02-09

As you watch this, a potentially powerful section of the organized US working class in the US is in dispute with a powerful section of the US capitalist class.  It's likely you may not know about it. This is because the capitalist mass media does not want you to know and the top leaders of the union involved, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are in agreement with them on this. 

The leaders of the ILWU, like the entire leadership of the AFL-CIO or organized labor in the US have the same world view as the bosses. They believe that the capitalist system  and the so-called free market is the only economic formation that can exist. So when capitalism goes in to crisis and increases its assault on the working class in order to pay for this crisis, the union officials immediately move to bail it out. Profits are sacrosanct and have to be protected at all costs,  through the sacrifice of working people, our families and the environment.