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The Right To Organise
In Unions
By
Ed McDonnell, retired from working as a
trade
union tutor teaching union workplace
reps/shop
stewards.
The
work is free to download, below this
introductory
text.
Employers
have more power over those
who
do the work for them than should have.
Everyone
knows this. But how they get it is
poorly
understood.
So
too is how people have the right to get
equal
to them by organizing in unions.
The
Right To Organise In Unions’ shows, from
everyone’s
daily experience, in everyday
language,
how they get their power.
Also,
not in everyday language but in the
language of business employer’s own ‘free
market’ economics, it shows how employers
use ‘marginal utility’
on their fellow-citizens
as if they are lifeless
goods, and are
allowed to by
governments.
It shows how the amount
of power employer’s
have over fellow-citizens, in the vital business
of earning their
living, is politically unacceptable.
And how, too, is
employers and governments
obstructing people from
organising themselves
together in unions.
Free Downloads – click on the red .pdf
links
1.
The book v. 2022.9 208 pages
-
The
Right To Organise In Unions.pdf
2.
A standalone short download.
Employers are organised, as businesses
and public bodies. Their organisation
is recognised in law and, obviously,
in workplaces.
We need – and are entitled to - the right
for our organisation as workers to be
recognised at work too.
3.
A single page of
summary diagrams
The 'Right To Organise' Chart.pdf
4.
Buy
a printed, ‘real book’ copy of
The Right To Organise , now coil-bound
for easy reading, £9.49 plus postage,
A Super-quick Read of ‘The Right To Organise’ –
The deal you have with employers in your job
is unfair. Here is why:
Businesses are just people organized together.
So are Public Services. They act together, as
organizations, collectively, all day and every day.
That is what enables them to dominate everybody
else in society.
Everybody else, mostly workers, should be
encouraging each other to learn why they too
have the right to organize and act together,
collectively. And not as a right
for ‘the unions’
but from their own, personal
positions’.
People know they’d be stronger in a union
but that doesn’t make the political case for
their entitlement to be.
This does – Employers are stronger than you not
because they can ‘get someone else
from the
unemployed’. It’s because they’ve
already got
so many staff. It’s because they’ve
got so many
others they don’t desperately need
any individual
worker. This case for the right to
organize urgently
needs making, with fellow-workers, with people
generally, with politicians and with the media
Its the biggest problem in society
because
without the mass of people being
organized,
it leaves work and business, the
most important
public activities, to be run by
business people,
who do it only in their own
interests.
Its time we caught up with
the Industrial Revolution –
They are organised, We need to be.
And are entitled to be.
‘The Right To Organise’ is an
extract from
'The System Explained' which is at
Here, two summaries of The System
Explained -
The
Super Summary.pdf v. 2022.6C
2,500 words, in large text for
phones/devices
5,000 words, in large text
for phones/devices.
Reviews of 'The System Explained' -
North West Labour History -
‘… far from an academic handbook on
your
rights at work… has the feel of the
shop floor’.
The late Tony Benn, socialist activist and politician -
‘… a great book to explain the essentials’.
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