It started when
my mother was in labor. Today its been a lifetime. During the interim
I published information for the edification of my peers. Now I am done
debating fools and everyone is invited to share my internment.
San Francisco's Sign-Display and Allied Crafts Local 510 is signatory to a collective
bargaining agreement which covers the installation & dismantling of exhibits
and trade shows. In this industry structures are built so that they
can be dis-assembled, shipped and re-assembled at another location.
For years bolts and wingnuts were used to achieve that result
and they became a symbol for the industry. Today workers refer to
themselves and each other as Wingnuts.
This is a history of Wingnuts.
And WATCHDoGs.
If you are a Local 510 member
then this is your history. Others tell you what they remember.
This is hard data. No one questioned the accuracy of my reporting
at the time of publication and the information has not deteriorated with age.
But be forewarned, association with my opinions results in loss of work
and demerits on the Business Agent's agendas. So just read it and say
you didn't.
If you are a member of another labor
union perhaps the futilities herein will guide your pursuit of justice
& human dignity. Assuming you are interested in justice and dignity.
For everyone else this is just another soap opera.
Each of the characters is a wage slave with their own plan for escape and the stage is full of peers (elevated from the rank and file) who are indistinguishable from the architects of the oppression.
It is a tale for our times. And it details the subversion of democracy by a political process which enables individuals to abuse power and accumulate wealth. Whether comic or tragic I leave up to you. It certainly is not a mystery.
( But if you need a clue, the officers did it in the office with a smile :)
When horsepower had four legs and Alexander was still a gleam in Ma Bell's eyes, the agreement to establish an American Democracy resolved problems of physical congress with representative government.
Today the internet is the mother of all political conventions.
And high technology the tool to implement virtual democracy.
One person one vote. On everything. Everyone. Everywhere.
We would then learn if humanity agreed to the rape of the planet and the buggery of their neighbors.
But what do I know.
THE COMPLAINT DEPT