Predictably, the middle-class pseudo-left are acting as attorneys for the RWDSU executives, concocting excuses for the Amazon debacle. The crybabies from "Left Voice" claim that the RDWSU was confronted with a "David versus Goliath" struggle against the corporate titan. /1
They write: "Amazon invested in an epic anti-union campaign, spending more than $10,000 a day to stop the unionization effort." Over a period of six months (180 days), that comes to $1.8 million. The annual combined salary package of top nine RWDSU officials is $1.98 million. /2
The union disburses another president $6 million annually to the rest of its staff. The problem was not a lack of money. The AFL-CIO is a multi-billion dollar business with vast resources. The RWDSU offered no program to rally workers' support. /3
The RWDSU understands that advancing any sort of militant program would immediately cost it the support of the Democratic Party. Moreover, the RWDSU executives, who are part of the richest 5 percent, fear an eruption of rank and file militancy. /4
Left Voice blames the workers. It quotes an RWDSU flunkey: "They don’t know anything about a union so [Amazon] can just feed them anything and they’ll just eat it up.” So the workers are not worthy of the RWDSU. What a contemptible argument. /5
In fact, the workers know plenty about the AFL-CIO: 40 years of concessions, wage cuts, and strike breaking. They want to fight, but a new form of fighting organization must be built. The SEP assists workers in the formation of militant rank and file committees. /6
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