Posted on 05/14/2016 10:20:51 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Monopolies were and are considered universally evil except when it comes to unions.
We hear quite a bit about inequality today. This seems to be the mantra in the waning of the Obama Administration with the President saying, “Income inequality is “the defining challenge of our time.” This is all code for another of President Obama’s descriptions of the same policy, the need to, “Spread this wealth around,” or in other words “From each according to his ability to each according to his need.”
Let’s spread the wealth around and end inequality. One of the President’s and the Democrat Party’s most powerful allies in this long march to the promised land of a worker’s paradise where everyone is truly equal are the unions.
Especially regarding unions in government - they not only cause inequality, they cause corruption and the decline of the rule of law and the rise of tyranny.
Personally, I don’t think Unions cause inequality among the rank and file members. They are all screwed collectively by their union leadership who are nothing more than crooks in suits.
If anything Unions serve to EQUATE humans to a Union define service grade which the union bosses dictate and from which collect their filthy lucre.
Why? We romanticize the poor in this country and vilify the rich. Why? How many of you work for a poor person? The history of Man is strewn with the wreckage of economic systems that have tried this prescription and all have failed. There's a reason: you kill incentive to be productive. Thoreau's flirting with such a social experiment at Walden failed miserably. After all, Henry spent the day under a shade tree writing poetry and Joe spent all day staring at the East end of a West-bound horse in the broiling sun plowing a field, but at the end of the day, they are "paid" the same. Because effort is not perceived as equal, the system breaks down.
Obozo, Bernie, and their ilk are selling the same snake oil that has killed millions throughout history and still there are people stupid enough to believe in a free lunch. Amazing...and sad.
Private sector unions are dead. Less than 7% of the private sector workforce is unionized. I’m not sure it would be possible to go to zero.
+1
And add to this unions in education. The union movement is directly related to the fall of a once great public education system.
When you have the young and learning at your mercy and at the same time you subscribe to a system of pay for time in the position (rather than pay for merit) you end up with a country that does not understand the concept of merit while pretending to believe in the concept of fairness (when nothing is fair) and equality (when equality does not exist either.)
No, EQUALITY. Everybody is THE SAME...it’s called SOCIALISM, the mantra of the “workers’ paradise.”
I disagree. I tried to learn every facet of my trade as a UA pipefitter and became very skilled while some of my “brothers” took the easy way out but still got the same pay and benefits as I did. And you can’t complain to anyone about it or fire them unless it was a serious breach in safety. All you could do is wait for the first layoffs to begin to get rid of these types.
A monopoly is bad because it offers you one choice only.
A union is not in itself a monopoly. Because if the playing field were level, the employer would always have a choice: accept whatever the union is demanding, or fire them all and hire a new permanent work force.
The problem is that the government has made it very difficult for any employer to choose that second option.
Layoffs never did come commensurate with experience , did it?
Seniority
Should be expertise
What this fascist Muslim really means is spreading OTW—other peoples’ wealth,not his and the ungrateful Moocher he lives with
We had no senority status on the job (building trades construction). The company could designate anyone for layoff. If it came down to this person or that person, the most skilled with a good work attitude always stayed to the last.
Yes.
re: Monopolies were and are considered universally evil except when it comes to unions.
I wonder if the author ever heard of government which is theultimate monopoly?
The time of unions are dead. Things have changed since the early 20th century. I’m in software and have never had the luxury of a union nor do I have a pension so I just may be a bit biased.
After reading that article on the Tyson chicken plant making workers wear diapers so they won’t take bathroom breaks, I am not feeling so disgusted with the ideal of unions.
The American/multinational business community has no morals nor ethics. All they care about is money. They are abusing the dignity of human beings and getting away with it because the globe is their workforce/no commpetition.
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