I hope there’s a nice rank-and-file revolt over union management rubber-stamp support of open-border Democrats. I never could understand how union members could accept a permanent, legal, low-wage workforce.
No kidding, I just don't get it. On the other hand a huge number of unionists now are public employees of some sort or another. Those people don't fear illegals and want them to one day vote for the politicians who expand Government and "create" jobs through taxation.
Unions are dying. Most of their membership is over fifty and as more young people are not able to see forking over $40 a month just for the privilege of having some pimp-squeak Union steward boss them around they have to expand the pool from which they draw members.
It makes perfect sense if you remember two things, unions are a business and all businesses want to grow and that unions are never about the "workers" but about the union leadership gaining more power.
Absolutely no chance of that. You need to understand the rules that the internationals use to prevent this kind of thing.
If the rank and file in a local were to jump ship and vote in local officers to oppose the international's political agenda or raising dues or other major issues, they would be deposed by the international in a flash. The local would be placed into receivership and the international would dictate the local policy until they could find appropriate local leadership to toe the party line.
Receivership or trusteeship been done many, many times in labor history, over many issues.
Between the rules as they are set up, and compulsory unionship for the individual member, its all pretty futile for rank and file that would actually want to challenge union policy. The only real alternative might be decertification of the union. That too is tough to accomplish as well, the rules are complex and the international is prepared to make challenges that can last for years in any big bargaining unit.