Andrew

It's like it's an it's an even more extreme version of the problem with like no one voting in regular elections.

And so, with a really small amount of votes, you can just get you and your faction installed for generations.

Like, there are admin caucuses in a whole bunch of unions.

Like, we're talking about, like, the Teamsters.

And, like, unions on that scale were, like... Yeah.

It was a huge deal when the Teamsters, like, finally ran out their admin caucus.

But, like, these people are in power for half a century.

These people are in power for, like, generations of these guys are able to stay in these unions, and they're able to do it because it's really, really easy to control union elections, especially once you're in power.

And this is something, like, I've talked about on this fucking show.

Like, I have seen union staffers whose job it is to do organizing get fired for telling their own members to read a contract they were being asked to vote on.

Because that was considered a threat to the power base.

Right.

And the problem is, is that once you're running the union, you control the jobs of all of the staff beneath you.

And one of the things that actually came out in Pablo Torres reporting is that they offered anyone who'd been at the union for more than seven years a buyout.

And so, you know, you can watch them do, like, they're doing a systemic purge of all of this stuff.

And then, like, the moment Shredder is, like, leading the search, right, he's able to use his position, like, his very specific position in this bureaucracy, like, as the president of the union, to, like, go change the terms of the search so that it's no secret.

And you can just keep using whatever, every position you take over gives you a little bit more sort of bureaucratic power that you can use to rat fuck people.

And once they're in, it's like,

It is possible to dislodge them.

Like, I mean, this is something that happened with the UAW in the last, like, that was 2020, 2023 they got in.