http://revolutionaryact.org/2008/12/about-these-union-bosses/ "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://revolutionaryact.org/2008/12/about-these-union-bosses/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Uri Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:13:09 +0000 http://revolutionaryact.org/?p=493#comment-714 no sooner did i post this than i started having doubts about it. it was my first go at trying to articulate how union leaders differ from bosses, and now i think it's in need of a rewrite - but a little later, not now. if i had to reframe it, i would put it this way: union leaders are less boss-like than bosses, and less elected-official-like than ordinary elected executive leaders, with respect to union members, because members generally have both kinds of right against the union leaders: the rights of "citizens" (the leader is a servant, democratic oversight, pressure of re-election) and the rights of employees (the right to quit, statutory protections like anti-discrimination). At the same time, union leaders do not have rights that bosses have, such as the right to fire or change the terms of employment/membership. no sooner did i post this than i started having doubts about it. it was my first go at trying to articulate how union leaders differ from bosses, and now i think it’s in need of a rewrite – but a little later, not now. if i had to reframe it, i would put it this way: union leaders are less boss-like than bosses, and less elected-official-like than ordinary elected executive leaders, with respect to union members, because members generally have both kinds of right against the union leaders: the rights of “citizens” (the leader is a servant, democratic oversight, pressure of re-election) and the rights of employees (the right to quit, statutory protections like anti-discrimination). At the same time, union leaders do not have rights that bosses have, such as the right to fire or change the terms of employment/membership.

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