So should we congratulate the GL incumbents for their ability to get LLs to nominate their slate.....or should we be more concerned with how difficult it is and will be to get better accountability from our IAM leaders? I think its the latter. As uneven and problematic as our US governments democratic process may be, I think that one only has to look at what happened to Richard Nixon to realize that in the end, it works quite well. You cannot say that about democracy in IAM elections. However it turns out. Jay Cronk and Karen Asuncion should get high praise for jettisoning any hope of working in the present administration, in an attempt to point us to a new future-----where rank and file voices can be heard without sacrificing the good order and discipline our union needs from us to battle successfully for our rights against our employers. Jay and Karen proved they arent careerists who will do anything the top dogs want just to keep their jobs in the IAM. No better example of a cowardly careerist is the person behind the bogus name of Glenn Anderson. And how shameful is it for the top people at the IAM to let this on-going disgrace to democracy continue. Reminds me of the dirty tricks of Dick Nixon. And shows what a long way we have to go.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:53:07 +0000
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