And now here he is again. Governor Brown
Edmund Gerald (Jerry) Brown Junior was born in 1938 and has held one form of elective office or another since 1970. A full 40 years in politics, no private sector jobs, no business experience, just government.
Frequently in discussion with my government clients, I get crazy looks from them when I am amazed by how they have worked for government their whole working life. I think there really needs to be something that say civil servants and politicians have to take a break in government service and get back out there in the real work world. How could it hurt, to have people be able to relate to real jobs (where your "career" is measured by accomplishment more that how long you stick it out at one place?
Jerry made a lot of promises about how he was going to put all that experience to work. Having lived in this state under his leadership, I know his record. He signed into law the Dills Act, enabling California State employees to organize into unions, he worked for approving the unionizing of farm workers:
"Jerry Brown becomes California governor. In response to the strikes and boycotts?as well as mounting pressure from the supermarket industry growers agree to a state law guaranteeing California farm workers the right to organize, vote in state-supervised secret-ballot elections and bargain with their employers. With help from Gov. Brown, the UFW wins passage of the landmark Agricultural Labor Relations Act."
Thanks Jerry. You are a true union hero. OOPs, but I ain't in a fricking union, am I.
Could you be in a union? If there is no union at your place of employment, could you walk into work and announce there is going to be a meeting to organise a union without worry that your employer is going to kick you out the door? Would your employer even worry about kicking you out the door because you tried to form a union?
ReplyDeleteMaybe you don't need to be in a union. Perhaps your company is not a big fricking arsehole that only sees employees as a commodity to be used and discarded. If so, then count yourself as one of the lucky ones because your situation is more rare than you may believe; especially true in comparison to those at the manual labour level.