Labour USA: UAW retirees: Soon to benefit from Fed protection of their "blue-collar aristocracy" pension-funds investments, preferential treatment

United Auto Workers retirees apparently will soon benefit from Fed protection of their "blue-collar aristocracy" pension-funds investments for future health care, under a will-of-the whisper preferential treatment UAW gets over less-spectacular more-marginalzed unions, including the Christian Labor Association of the USA.

See Monday's blog-entry: Economics USA: Autos: GM again slated for bankruptcy as Obama preferential treatment for UAW takes effect

Repeating myself momentarily, today's blog-entry continues the discussion I bagan yesterday, now under the title: Labour USA: UAW retirees: Soon to benefit from Fed protection of their "blue-collar aristocracy" pension-funds investments, preferential treatment of the UAW, closed-shop vs. freedom of association within the workforce by membership in a union alternative to the UAW, like CLA-USA, proportionate to those who freely vote for it as their representative on the shop floor and in the bargaining unit (with a minimum of at least one minority vote there), and whereas UAW pratices check-off of dues for causes not directly belonging to union membership (like political and leftwing causes), CLAC does not arbitrarily check-off dues or practice other skimming off the top for inappropriate forced contributions.

Prez Barack Obama keeps digging himself a deeper trench in regard to his failure, as a law-trained graduate of Harvard and law prof elsewhere, to bring forward strict pluralization of bargaining-unit workforces from larger company to large company--that indeed is the place to start if Obama wants to advance a less decrepit, and a less totalitarian theory of labour representation than the one he now is enacting thru promised / planned legislation (his erstwhile end run to head off secret-ballot voting of all workers in the present (no freedom of association) or the-here-proposed (freedom of association type of) bargaining unit, whose workers/members will then be able individually and in secret ballotting to select from alternative unions for their official representation; thereby they would be claiming the very right of association which the UAW denies). It's a pity that the UAW did not in itself lead the way toward such pluralized representation for Big-3 autoworkers.

The burning issue in industrial relations, autoworkers, and the monopoly position the UAW has fostered for itself, along with a check-off of dues of workers who do not want to contribute to the UAW's leftwingaling causes and/or do not want to be associated with such a union as UAW but want the autowork and the more-fully-negotiated pay made possible by pluralization of workers' representation. Now UAW wants to get rid of the secret ballot, instead it wants a far less trustworthy and certifiable card switch.

Having made that very serious and fundamental point of totalitarian monolithic lack of freedom of association in UAW and its pension-fund ownership, which could be reversed by instituting pluralization--via co-participation with other unions based on other principles, I now turn to inquire: if the UAW unjust system of representation still, via their pension-funds, qualifies them for 55% ownership of the UAW after Obama's restructuring of the corporation, coupled now with a boondoggle for the workers' pension-fund owners (which means the UAW's brass who run the pension fund), still doesn't this mean that Obama has uniquely preferred these or Chrysler's or GM's (not to mention Ford's) closed-shop UAW, while the latter's leadership is campaigning to do away with secret ballots.

The Christian Labor Association of the USA, functioning legally since 1934, should be put on the secret ballot and be permitted to elect a proportion of the shop stewards and union representatives to sit in all inner-planning committees of the combined unions of each company, and to designate at least one member of the overall-contract bargaining committee, a party to dialogue with both the majority union (UAW) and the company (either GM, Chrysler, and Ford). So should / would the CLAC-USA take its place where individual autoworkers choose to vote for this alternative Christian union, welcoming people of all faiths and no-faith to its ranks--based on the Christian social principles formative for CLAC's labor stance and policies (the latter constantly under internal reivew to match the stance).

The CLA works to promote harmony between Employer and Employee. This makes us a unique organization. The CLA is a labor union, certified by the National Labor Relations Board and similar state and local agencies. Our right to act as bargaining agents for employees is protected by law. The CLA is not affiliated with a large international union, but democratically governed by its membership. The CLA promotes harmony among all workers. Our method of operation allows for the crossing of trade lines, eliminating craft disputes. The CLA realizes that the livelihood of the employer and employee is derived from the same source.

CLAC-USA's small national board consists of three different ethnicities as indicated perhaps by surname (1 Hispanic-named, 2 English-named, and 2 Dutch-named).