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No, these were workers at Summit Hospital. I think United Healthcare
Workers - part of SEIU - although I've heard similar complaints about UPTE,
as I have about ALL the unions (including my former one).

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Masko <j.alan.ma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would that have been UPTE folks by chance?
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:51 PM John Reimann via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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>> I just got back from getting a chest x-ray (for something totally
>> unrelated
>> to the coronavirus). All the workers there are in the union. I got to
>> asking several of them how things are going, what's up with the union,
>> etc.
>> They had not seen hide nor hair of any union rep. They didn't seem to
>> think
>> the x-ray office would be closed, but if it is, they have no idea if they
>> will continue to be paid. They all commented on the $1000 they heard they
>> will be getting, as if it is in the bag, and as if it will save their
>> bacon
>> if they are laid off. I got the impression that they're seeing this bundle
>> of cash like an extra payday, period. I asked how far they think $1000
>> will
>> go in paying the rent of house note, and they all were silent. I pointed
>> out the billions that Trump is planning to give the big corporations, and
>> they had nothing to say about that.
>>
>> In the end, I was talking with the x-ray tech about all this. His final
>> words were, "well, they (the employers) sign our pay check." "Yeah, and we
>> do the work," was my reply. He kind of chuckled and muttered "that's
>> true",
>> but it was clear he'd never looked at it like that before.
>>
>> In general, the union is the furthest thing from their mind, exactly
>> because of the absence of the union for many years.
>>
>>
>> John Reimann
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