Aren unions just as corrupt and bureaucratic as the government?
When we talk about building unions, we don’t mean ones like those current mainstream ones (such as the AFL-CIO) which are run by bureaucrats. Even in the cases where the leaders are sincere, their top-down structure leaves the members out of key decision-making and at best defends the lousy deal we already have. In most cases these unions are not interested in fighting for a free and worker controlled society, rather they are only interested in a few more crumbs off the bosses’ dinner table. The unions WSA is talking about (anarchist unions) have no leaders, no paid officials and all decisions are made cooperatively. Their purpose is not only to get as much out of the bosses for workers as they can, but to fight for an end to capitalism and to realize our dreams of a free society, where living “happily ever after” isn’t just the end of a children’s fairy tale.
