The Guilt of Business Unionism and Justification For Violence

The Local 308 union bosses and their loyalists like to promote me as as a mass murderer—one with "active shooter vibes" they say. 

They stoke fear for my message of Revolutionary Unionism by promoting me as someone who managers will never respect at the "negotiations" because of my "temper." At the last membership meeting, they even went so far as to motion that I be referred for treatment for mental illness. 

One day I am an undercover wannabe manager. The next day I am a union buster. Another day I am a radical that makes the CTA managers punish us.

This is truly an ironic, classical Greek comedy! Galileo and Pope Urban VIII would be astonished with such sophistication in shoot-the-messenger guerilla tactics! 

These are the same people that value relationships with managers who punish members over relationships with union members who suffer from daily mismanagment. 

These are the same people who tell members that "we have to ask for what the CTA will give us, not for things they won't give us."

These are the same people who let the CTA survey the members about working conditions with an online survey and tell members to submit contract proposal items in meetings on the far south side of Chicago.

These are the same heartless beings who are not bothered that Stockroom Clerks do not get Night Premium pay. 

These are the same sellouts who sit silently as cruel mismanagers berate members and write them up for being human. 

These are the same bootlickers that will respond to your complaints about crappy working conditions with statements like "we can't tell the CTA what to do." 

These are the same elected bosses who hug the mayor and defended the CTA for punishing The Midway Four when they took a stand against dirtbag mismanagers on April 8, 2020. 

These are the same men and women who think being fired for getting sick or injured is OK. These are the same people who won't say anything public when a member gets threatened with murder by a manager, gets assaulted at a station or has a miscarriage because of punitive attendance rules.

I am the one in need of a bullet to the body, mental health therapy and a beat-down in the Local 308 office parking lot by Boss Dixon's appointed ATU rent-a-cop, Warden Tom Moore? 

I am a cold-blooded mass murderer? 

Yeah, keep trying to mask your Business Unionist funk with perfume. Keep making a boogeyman out of the members who dare to hold you accountable. 

Eventually, the members will see the Truth and reject your dirty glass of water for a clean glass of water.

For those of you who want to help me take our union back from the bosses agents and give it back to the members, sign up now: https://bit.ly/3u213UD