Sunday, May 16, 2010

Why the Labour Bureaucracy and the Bourgeoisie want Staff In Mental Health Housing to be Unionized

* Keep a cap on potential labour militancy: 
   . Many of the residents are proletarian others were homeless and are or were 
unemployed. These group homes serve a an organic link between the anger of the 
ghetto masses and the militancy of the proletariat.
   . The staff instill unquestioning obedience in authority. One of the staff 
persons described themselves as a "den mother" (the family instills in youth 
unquestioning obedience in authority).
* The labour bureaucracy expands its dues base without organizing the
proletariat:
   . Less dependent on the proletariat for dues.
* Builds organic links between the labour bureaucracy and the bourgeois state.
* The labour bureaucracy shares the bourgeoisie's contempt for the disabled.
* The labour bureaucracy collaborates with the bourgeoisie and even organizes 
cops, security guards, prison guards etc. Organizing managers is a logical next 
step:
   . The staff in mental health housing have more in common with low level 
managers or foremen then proletarians or even semi-proletarians.
   . All the manual labour is performed by the residents. Workfare with a new name.

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