UAW President Bob King describes his love affair with the bosses. (Video)

Listen to this disgusting speech by the president of the UAW, Bob King.  This is how integrated the Union bureaucracy and the employers have become through the Team Concept.  There is no hiding it any more, no pretense; the marriage is consummated.  King, is not alone, they are all the same. He supports "flexibility".  The economist Lester Thurow warned us of the term "flexibility" in his 1996 book, The Future of Capitalism, "While no official wants to say it out loud" Thurow writes, "flexibility is simply a code word for falling wages."  Well, they say it out loud now.  "We want to embrace as our own, the success of our employers" says King below. As Daniel De Leon put it, they are The Labor Lieutenants of Capitalism. 

There is no way in the present climate, in the absence of a fighting opposition movement within organized Labor,  that you can hold an official position in the higher bodies, the executive board of a Central Labor Council, the presidency or executive committee of a state federation, without being completely safe and reliable (meaning not openly campaigning against their policies, the Team Concept and support for the Democrats in particular)  as far as the likes of Bob King and the present right wing bureaucracy are concerned.  Any individual or opposition/reform group within organized Labor that claims the mantle of change cannot produce it without a program and method that is different from that of Bob King.  The lack of it cannot be hidden behind calls for Union democracy in the abstract and that alone.  Any individual or opposition group within organized Labor that is serious about change cannot produce it without coming in to an open conflict with the present right wing bureaucracy.  We are in a struggle for the consciousness of the working class.  And while the leadership shoulders the bulk of the blame as it should, I  say to the worker who pays the dues, this is how far we have come letting someone else do it for us, we will have to dig ourselves out of a deeper hole than is necessary, but dig ourselves out we must.   (thanks to Tino for sharing the video)