Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Trade unions needs to recapture social vision american theorist by Debbie a on labor movements arc sorely in need of recapturing their abandoned social i an american professor and former Union organizer thursday in More than it the labor movement needs a said Stanley Aron professor of comparative culture and social Sci ence at the University of California in the loss of social vision among unions has led them to coopt workers interests into corporate and govern ment plans for the he said in an interview at the University of Manitoba where he was taking part in the school of social works distinguished visitors organized labor to act in a socially responsible Way and in workers lon term interests per haps has taken this response ble approach More to heart than it he unions have abandoned social vision and accepted the vision of Liberal and i dont mean that in a political sense the lib eral vision is that nothing May be sacrificed to the interests of economic stable prices and productive among the results conditions in the workplace have deteriorated and unions have failed to organize important sectors of the labor suggested a for Mer steel worker and Union me cited As an example the current Coal workers strike in the the United mine workers leaders agreed to recommend to Coal workers contract that would oblige them to work in unsafe conditions pending arbitration and would subject the Union to fines for walkouts Over he Here is a classic Case of a perfectly rational demand of employers for production continuity in conflict with a perfectly human demand of workers for safety the Union accepted the rational Ity of the to the establishment of a kind of social contract Between unions and the corporate government sectors has created an unfair Burden for workers particularly since conditions of work have declined and wages Haven kept Pace with Price workers response has been a general Lack of enthusiasm for work represented by flagging productivity in areas where the labor Factor is still for this reason and because work ers now see the unmistakable trend to deteriorating conditions worker Damoc causing la claims by David Lee a new democratic party la has accused Manito Bas housing minister of creating chaos by voicing inaccurate and destructive comments about the possibility of the province vacating the Field of Public Wilson Parasiuk and Transcona said in a statement the position taken by minister without portfolio Frank John Ston May Cost Manitoba As much As million annually in prime rate Federal financing available for Public housing Johnstons said were made with out adequate knowledge of Federal financing the implications of his actions and internal provincial pro minister responsible for the Manitoba hous ing and renewal said earlier this week he was confident the private sector can be convinced to take Over the Supply and management of Low Cost Public hous the minister said that while the government is pre pared to continue providing rental subsidies for those in Public housing it no longer wants to be the owner and operator of said that if the province Only pays subsidies it will eventually be handing out considerably More than the million this this will he because of the Way private rents Are Parasiuk said the minister should put on his thinking Cap and do his Homework before he completely Deci mates All aspects of the Manitoba land banking and rent control programs without providing workable racy and partnership be tween business and labor Are being but heres the rub if you Only increase productivity without improving the work ing environment youll Only increase worker alienation and partnership will be nothing but an incentive sys Aronowitz argues workers have lost Power in Canada and the since the second world often in an Exchange for higher wages and technological change and administrative centralization deprived them of their traditional ability to make informal decisions about Job conditions and permitted slow attrition in the work he the tendency to Cut Down the labor Bill by making peo ple work longer and has produced problems that no one wants to look at problems like High youth unemployment about 40 per cent for those Between 16 and 21 in the unions have not been in the forefront in the of opposition to these Cut backs or to the intensification of work in the Industrial sector unions defend their own members Best in Treyve been successful in protecting their without the there is no question that the government Job creation pro Grams now being debated in Congress would never have a but at the bargain ing Tate there has been Little pressure to oppose the attrition and social ser vice Aronowitz noted the pro portion of Organ Ted Ameri can workers Haft dropped about five per cent in 20 he suggested the labor movement hat been seriously remiss in falling to organize the working poor and technical and administrative who sees signs of another warned that the latter group again will face heavy layoffs As in the previous two Public employees no longer see themselves exempt from inclusion in unions and Are he but for the working for those in service in it would take a massive organizational Campaign of the scale of the Cio drives of the and it would take a vision very much like the civil rights i the author of several papers and including false promises the Shap ing of working class con Aronowitz said unions have been caught in a bind Between the interests of their membership and what is seen by society As their so in his unions Arent constituted to fulfil this broader a Union is a dependent variable in economic social unions have been blamed for things they can not be blamed unions cannot be held responsible for inflation or Overall prob lems in the to a Large they Are bound by the interests of the membership to make certain de notice City of Winnipeg Assiniboine Park fort Garry Community committee a Public meeting 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