Laborcrats, with their penthouses, junkets, executive board secrets and lack of financial accountability, make us easy targets.
Many companies have captive-audience meetings of their employees.
The union-avoidance specialists that they hire know how to spin this fact to their advantage. What is ironic is that nonunion employees can openly discuss union corruption and are able to learn a great deal, real or imagined, at such meetings. Indictments, convictions and negative coverage of labor in the media is never officially discussed with members of the rank and file. Union meetings, publications and websites usually ignore corruption or give sanitized versions of events. The lack of rank-and file democracy is the real organizing problem.