The
Right To Organise In Unions
is now
The Right To Unionise
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So the material below is going out of date.
By
Ed McDonnell (see bottom of page)
Below
this next short introductory text,
the
work is free to download.
Employers
have more power than they should
over
the people who do the work for them.
That’s
the majority of people. Everyone knows
it,
but not how they get it.
Nor
is it properly known how people have the
right
to get equal to them by organizing in unions.
‘The
Right To Organise In Unions’ shows how
they
get their power, in everyday language,
using
everyone’s daily experience.
And
shows, in the language of business
people’s
own ‘free market’ economics, how
they use the brutality of marginal utility on
fellow-citizens as if they are lifeless goods.
It shows how this power
employers have over
fellow-citizens in the vital business of earning
their living is
politically unacceptable.
And how, too, is
employers and governments
obstructing people from
organising together
in unions.
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links
1.
The book v. 2022.9 208 pages
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The
Right To Organise In Unions.pdf
2.
A standalone short download.
Employers are themselves organised,
as businesses and public bodies. Their
organisation is recognised in law and,
obviously, in workplaces.
We need – are entitled to - the right
for our organisation as workers to be
recognised at work too.
3.
A single page of
summary diagrams
The 'Right To Organise' Chart.pdf
4.
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A Super-quick Read of ‘The Right To Organise’ –
The deal you have with employers in your job
is unfair. Here is why:
Businesses are just people organized together.
So are Public Services. They act together, as
organizations, collectively, all day and every day.
That is what enables them to dominate everybody
else in society.
The majority, mostly workers, should be
encouraging each other to learn why they too
have the right to organize and act together,
collectively. Not as a right for ‘the
unions’
but from their own, personal
positions.
People know they’d be stronger in a union
but that doesn’t make the political case for
their entitlement to be.
This is the core of the case - Employers are
stronger than any worker not because they
can ‘get someone else from the unemployed’.
It’s because they’ve already got someone else,
in large numbers – they’ve got so many staff.
Because they’ve got so many others they don’t
desperately need any individual worker.
This, the basis of the case for the right to organize,
urgently needs making, with fellow-workers, with
people generally, with politicians and with the media
Its the biggest problem in society
because
without the mass of people being
organized,
it leaves work and business, the
most important
public activities, to be run by
business people,
who do it only in their own
interests.
Its time we caught up with
the Industrial Revolution –
They are organised, We need to be.
And are entitled to be.
‘The Right To Organise’ is an
extract from
'The System Explained' which is at
Here, two summaries of The System
Explained -
The
Super Summary.pdf v. 2022.6C
2,500 words, in large text for
phones/devices
5,000 words, in large
text for phones/devices.
Reviews of 'The System Explained' -
North West Labour History -
‘… far from an academic handbook on
your
rights at work… has the feel of the
shop floor’.
The late Tony Benn, socialist activist and politician -
‘… a great book to explain the essentials’.
Ed McDonnell
is a retired
lecturer.
He taught courses for union workplace
reps/shop stewards and has been active
in the labour
movement and class politics
for fifty years, in the UK.
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Experimenting with
Frames July Employers have more
power than they should over the people who do the work for them. That’s the
majority of people. Everyone knows it, but not how they get it. Nor is it properly
known how people have the right to get equal to them by organizing in unions. ‘The Right To
Organise In Unions’ shows how they get their power, in everyday language, using
everyone’s daily experience. And shows, in the
language of business people’s own ‘free market’ economics, how they use the
brutality of marginal utility on fellow-citizens as if they are lifeless
goods. It shows how this power employers have over fellow-citizens in the vital business of earning their living is
politically unacceptable. |