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That's not true, big labor is a huge money funnel for Democrats today. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by big labor on politics every year. People are forced to pay union dues just to work at a job and in turn their union gives money and buys power regardless if the workers agree or not.
Labor unions are and have been the biggest racket around, that's why the death of big labor is a welcome thing in this country. This is also why a very small minority aren't able to overpower the America people in things like recall elections in WI.
In some places, it's a FACT, political donations are not allowed to come from union dues, especially if the union is a government one.
Wrong. I know some union workers who are dumb as doorknobs. They expect to go to work, hide out and sleep on the job and know that the unions will protect them.
How about those guys who were smoking pot in the parking lot on their lunch break. The unions protected them and they got their jobs back. Some will argue that their lunch break is their time but would you want a your surgeon or your nurse smoking pot on their lunch break? And the unions will protect their jobs too.
Meanwhile, who knows what workers do in non unionized workplaces do to get by without working or are allowed to have bad work habits?
Perhaps union leadership has become too focused on being a mouthpiece for a political party and its agenda rather than for representing the bests interests of its membership.
Hardly....
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Originally Posted by TheMoreYouKnow
Who would have thought that a union supporter would use a race card? Unions are dying for a reason, they helped us at one point but now they do nothing but hold us back. People who need labor unions to survive can't do so on their own, uneducated and unskilled people always need help from others to survive.
Not an union supporter, but a union member...
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Thank you for what will be the best laugh I will probably have today.
If there are more left wing than right wing people, and unions give women and minorities more power, then why is Union membership falling. Either they don't do the above, or people realize that paying someone else to get a job isn;t necessary in this day and age.
So, you don't understand political battles and how it's possible that legislators can and do drill holes and weaken laws, such as "right-to-work"? Right-to-work is the naked antithesis of democracy in the workplace. I thought people in the U.S. were all about democracy?
You are missing the point. The workers brought their issues to ownership and were ignored. In a union-shop, if multiple workers have a safety-related problem, especially one that violates safety regulations, that union WILL force ownership to do something or they'll stop production.
Sorry but if you're a member you're already a supporter because you don't have a choice, you financially support your union whether you like it or not. You support your overpaid labor union leaders who live a lavish lifestyle on your money.
At least you get something for your money, you know they'll always be someone there to fight to get you more money than you're worth and fight to keep you employed when they should replace you with someone better qualified.
What do you suppose will happen when all the states are right to work and unions are gone?
Will it be....
A: Companies start paying a higher wage and sharing profits with their workers so they might enjoy a middle class lifestyle?
B: Companies stay the same and workers vote for Democrats that make conservatives clamor for the "Capitalistic Obama days"?
c: The current union members would be forced to actually work and produce, they would be paid according to their value and not their union's ability to force companies to overpay due to the threat of a strike. Non union states would continue to prosper just like non-union employees that already take their own value seriously instead of expecting someone else to fight for them for a monthly fee.
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Unions are dying for a reason, they helped us at one point but now they do nothing but hold us back. People who need labor unions to survive can't do so on their own, uneducated and unskilled people always need help from others to survive.
