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That's the problem though, people who want to force other people to do things their way are more motivated to public protests, then people that just want to be free and live their lives the way the they see fit.
It's sort of like the freedom loving hippie going up against the power hungry tyrant. The tyrant is a powerful well organized group with thousands of members, and is in league with the government, while the freedom lover is just an individual.
The two things that spooked the union types and those who want to CHANGE America is the Tea Party protests and the 2010 elections. People still have the power in this country - for now. The problem is that is takes time and effort to make protests happen. And most decent people have jobs, kids, other stuff to take care of.
With the technology available, there has to be an easier way of gathering people - but like a war, sometimes it takes boots on the ground.
I have worked in the area of occupational health and safety. Unions help to enforce health and safety standards in a number of important ways:
Unions can gather information about dangerous conditions more effectively than individual workers can.
Studies have found that unions helps educate workers about health and safety risks in their workplaces so that unionized workers show greater awareness of those risks than non-unionized workers.
Unionized workers can speak out about dangerous conditions collectively, rather than individually, so that one individual employee is not targeted by management as a troublemaker. The strength of the collective voice of the union increases the likelihood the employer will honor the workers’ request for compliance.
Although under OSHA law workers can accompany an OSHA inspector on a workplace tour, unionized workers are far more likely to participate in the inspections resulting in a safer workplace.
I have worked in the area of occupational health and safety. Unions help to enforce health and safety standards in a number of important ways:
Unions can gather information about dangerous conditions more effectively than individual workers can.
Studies have found that unions helps educate workers about health and safety risks in their workplaces so that unionized workers show greater awareness of those risks than non-unionized workers.
Unionized workers can speak out about dangerous conditions collectively, rather than individually, so that one individual employee is not targeted by management as a troublemaker. The strength of the collective voice of the union increases the likelihood the employer will honor the workers’ request for compliance.
Although under OSHA law workers can accompany an OSHA inspector on a workplace tour, unionized workers are far more likely to participate in the inspections resulting in a safer workplace.
So what? Unless they're willing to act, as in fire the workers that cause those dangerous conditions, they might as well not be there at all. The union defended the workers that were drinking and smoking pot on the job. Those workers are back to work. How safe do you think a workplace is, where the employees are drunk and high?
Right now there is way more wrong with unions than right.
I look at the bold above and think - who is the boss here? The workers or the owners?
If you are a good employee and make yourself valuable - there will be no fear from the employer taking advantage of you. In fact, the opposite will occur and the the employer will want to protect the good employee.
Being a good employee has little to do with worker safety. The U.S. has a long and bloody history of employers ignoring the health and safety needs of its workers in a rush for greater profits. (I worked in the area of occupational fatalities)
We have laws to protect workers. The majority of American workers (non government) do not belong to a union and are doing fine at their jobs.
What are you people so scared about ?
How long to you think those laws protecting workers will stay on the books without the threat of the unions? Already legislation has been introduced to do away with minimum wages and minimum ages for kids entering the work force.
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