Filmmaker and consummate union gasbag Michael Moore is at it again, this time calling on frostbitten Occupy Wall Street protestors to take it indoors this winter and get to unionizing their jobs. ( jobs?? ) And he does so while, in a totally non-capitalist fashion of course, promoting his own video.
“Let’s spend the winter organizing workplaces into unions. OR, if you already have a union, demand that your leaders get off their ass and get aggressive like our grandparents did.” Moore then goes on… and on… to but again invoke the ghosts of the Flint sitdown strike, the irony being Flint is now a burnt out shell with a 27% unemployment rate due largely to unsustainable labor costs and a hostile business environment.
“Here are two good unions to get your fellow workers to sign up and join: UE and SEIU. The CWA are also good,” Moore advises, ever the tireless advocate of worker empowerment and true union democracy.
He then goes on to refer Occupiers to a UE website with step-by-step instructions in union organizing, as explained by a third grader with three crayons. And if your job could be headed overseas? Then, according to Moore, “it’s time to occupy the workplace… you can get a lesson in how to successfully occupy your factory from my movie.” Of course! Moore does not share how a sitdown strike in your workplace would sway your boss not to move your job to Mexico.
