Union Fires Its Own Workers For Trying To Unionize. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.

Unions are a bit like feminism – they started out with good intentions of making life better for people who needed it. And nobody will argue that the first unionizers and feminists were pretty darn successful. You’d think those movements would congratulate themselves on a job well done and say “let’s all go back to our regular lives knowing we made a difference in the world.”

Except they didn’t. They decided the whole “stick up for the downtrodden” schtick was so good they wanted to keep it going. Even when the “downtrodden” they found to stick up for were nothing of the kind and they became the exact sort of oppressors they once spoke out against (but shhhh – don’t say that out loud. Not unless you want to be called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic, hatey-hater). All they did was create fake victims and fake controversies, just to keep themselves relevant.

Which is why I’m not a fan of modern unions, much the same way I’m not a fan of modern feminism. Unions tend to demonize employers and make unreasonable demands that force many great companies out of business, simply for not complying with what the unions want. Unions for government employees are even worse (though that’s another topic for another day). It’s like the mafia found a way to look respectable while still shaking down innocent people and running their illegal rackets. Which is why I find this story absolutely hilarious.

According to the New York Post, the United Food and Commercial Workers International employed a number of non-union workers in their campaign against the EEEEEEEEVIL Walmart. But what they missed was that the UFCW employees weren’t happy about the way they were being treated, so they tried to unionize. And in one of the greatest ironic moments in recent memory, the UFCW fired the employees that were getting their union together.

Excuse me – I need some popcorn for this.

Those fired were Seattle-based organizers who said the dismissals came several months after they reached out to the union that represents UFCW employees, the insider told The Post.

They wanted to know why they were not covered by the same contract as their colleagues.

“As union organizers, it’s our job to teach people about their labor rights and how to be more effective at Walmart,” said one of the fired UFCW employees, who did not want to be identified.

The UFCW “is all for workers’ rights yet it denied its own staff union contracts and didn’t pay us overtime and eventually fired us for reaching out to a union,” the ousted worker said.

The UCFW responded thusly –

“We do not fire people for union activity,” the official said.

One of the fired OUR Walmart directors about whom the UFCW official was referring, Daniel Schlademan, disagreed with the UFCW’s version of how the organization made personnel decisions.

“Any staffing decisions on the Making Change at Walmart campaign were made solely by UFCW’s human resources department,” said Schlademan, who is now spearheading another OUR Walmart campaign, with 20 social justice and labor groups.

Kinda sucks when your own tactics get used against you, doesn’t it?