2007-06-10 06:12:30 · 6 answers · asked by Steve T 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
The real problem with the labor movement is a lack of real desire on the part of labor to effect change at any cost. Labor parties have to play hard and sometimes dirty to gain a voice over the politcal system. In America the labor force is to passive to get anything done. If the party is every going to mature into a real voice of change it will first have to develope a real long term process of building a pool of ready funds that only the strike force can draw down from and also it will have to muster up the guts to do the job.
2007-06-10 18:09:29 · answer #1 · answered by the light exposes the darkenss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because everything but the Democratic and Republican parties are weak, mostly because they continue to keep all the money in the country within the two parties...third parties can't even get the most basic public funding and Labor is just one of many movements that more people would sign onto if they thought that party would win. More Americans actually believe in the ideals of the following parties than they do in the two major parties:
Greens, Libertarian, Labor, and Socialist. All four of these do better on a test where the actual party is kept blank, and people have to vote on which individual things they believe in. More people agree with the Green point of view or the Labor point of view than the Republican point of view, but good luck getting anyone into office who cares...
2007-06-10 06:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by Levi S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a former member of both the UFCW and the FOP. I believe the Unions are weak because they let themselves become weak due to greed.
I realize that the Union guys were never Boy Scouts but I do believe that at one point in time they did actually try to help the working guy.
When I was in the union both the leadership and the upper seniority people had the idea that "they had paid their dues and now it was time for them to get their payback". They believed the union was there to provide them some sort of booty that they could take from their fellow union members.
I had no stake or loyalty to the union so I was not ready to get coffee or shine their boots. Just the opposite; I was giving them money and expected something for it.
They did not like the younger crowds attitude. they just wanted their dues.
That is why they failed.
2007-06-10 06:28:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Minimum wage and working conditions are followed in the US. Thus, there is no need for labor unions to organize and fight against employers to follow labor laws.
2007-06-10 10:24:39 · answer #4 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they were severely weakened by Reagan Administration policies (the firing of Air Traffic Controllers etc.); their numbers have been dwindling over the past several decades.
2007-06-10 07:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by kobacker59 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Americans are brainwashed by the conservative propaganda. Conservatives control most of the media and they hate the unions.
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2007-06-10 17:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋