Trumka: Technology Must Be Used for Good, Not Greed

AFL-CIO ^ | May 3, 2018 | Richard L. Trumka

[mdittmar]

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at the opening meeting of the Commission on the Future of Work and Unions: 

Good morning, everybody. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the first meeting of the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions. I want to thank my partners, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, along with our affiliate union presidents, who represent the broad sectors of the economy and will help guide this important work.

We are also honored to be joined today by a number of labor leaders, academics, policy professionals, organizers and frontline workers who are shaping the future of work in their own unique way.

Our mission is to build bargaining power and provide economic security for millions of Americans amidst massive changes in the workplace, and to make sure we as a movement are effectively organized and structured to get it done. This includes figuring out how to rally and organize workers in the fastest-growing sectors of a rapidly-changing economy.

[MayflowerMadam]

Trumka. Union boss. Greedy to the nth degree. The hypocrisy is astounding.

[Theoria]

[Myrddin]

I worked on a contract where a small telco intented to become an ISP and take the firm public. A "mystery" customer promised to bring 1 million clients. After the network gear was stood up, the web staff needed final artwork from the customer for the sign up page. Mind you, we had hired a lot of prima donna software geeks to make the company a stunning success. Everything was lining up for on time delivery. Then the "stunning" surprise. The customer insisted that all employees of the company be union members. Silence, then laughter. There will be ice skating in hell before that ever happens. The customer withdrew. Who was the mystery customer? They called themselves "Unions of America". Most of us believed they were a false front for the DNC. Suffice to say, things went badly downhill with details that can't be shared.

The key lesson that Trumka should learn is that computer science grads with any kind of talent have a very low probability of being recruited into a union. If they are any good, they can command salares 4 to 10 times what the union could hope to negotiate.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Very profound, heavy even!

Trumka: "use technology for good not greed", which is so different from President Trump who said "use technology for greed, not good".   /s

That should be inscribed on Trumka's tombstone. Reminds me of the wisdom of Emil Faber, founder of Faber College:

[Spok]

Whose “good”? That’s always where everyting goes to hell. No man has the right to decide what the “good” means for another man.

[Enchante]

"Unions must be used for GOOD not GREED"

There, fixed It!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Little Dick is the King of Greed. What the heck is he talking about? He steals from workers’ paychecks and doesn’t do a damn thing all day but flap his jaws. Shut up Dick.

[Hugin]

Far more good things happen in the world due to greed than altruism. Not even close.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I thought this old loudmouthed red had died. Come on Father Time, do you thang.

[D Rider]

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

-Gordon Gecko, "Wall Street"

[21twelve]

The following is a quote from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". Figures in well with this union crap.: “Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

[Doogle]

...the azzhole has the Hillary syndrome... points at everything else
to explain and cover what is wrong with everything he’s been involved with...

[Doogle]

.....as long as he gets his cut,all is well...

[neverevergiveup]

Interesting. This is why, in my opinion, business tends to be more of a meritocracy than academics or politics. The bottom line is the bottom line, and unless you have a significant amount of nepotism, or relationship-associated advancement, those who can increase the bottom line tend to be the ones who do well in business. Academics is absolutely not a meritocracy, and clearly neither is politics.

[jmaroneps37]

Why is this guy still at the head of the AFL-CIO after he took the 5th several times? The union thug rules say if you ever take the 5th you can never be a union official.