Posted on 09/18/2016 3:42:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 09/18/2016 3:44:38 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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Union members are seeing the fallacy of how globalization means fewer jobs here in the US.
Two types of union members. Some are in the private sector (UMW, UAW, Teamsters, trade unions). Some are in the government sector (SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, etc). Big difference between them.
Rank-in-file doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Rank-and-file is what they’re looking for, I think.
Even FDR knew government unions are bad for the nation.
That’s how I’ve always thought.
Union members aren’t all after freebies. Most work very hard to earn their benefits.
It’s the lazy, double dipping, democrat supporting, uninformed that make the rest of us look horrible and I don’t blame anyone who is pissed.
Every fellow union hand I know can’t stand Hillary. The union heads follow the political winds.
Private sector trade union members are incredibly strong Trump supporters. I know from firsthand experience.
Welcome to FR!
Fixed.
We have free trade. Across State lines.
The rest of the world...they need to work on their own economies.
Arguably one of our very greatest Presidents said the following in 1906:
“The Republican Party does not belong to the Corporations. It is Lincoln’s Party of plain people”. This observation was the driver behind his Bull-Moose insurgency of 1912.
Teddy Roosevelt grasped what Disraeli and Von Bismarck had, a generation earlier. Future political power lay in the hands of the non-Socialist working class, not the moneyed class. Hence his mutual friendship and alliance w/Samuel Gompers of the AFofL.
But Taft, your quintessential political crony and in the pocket of the corporate monopolists, wouldn’t have it; so the election went to Wilson. A fateful opportunity was missed whose consequences are plain to see and still reverberate loudly to this day..
Thank you. I feel at home here.
My husband is in a tile union, Local 7 NY & NJ, just got a flyer in the mail the other day all for Hillary the beast. The union has never endorsed a republican as far back as I can remember..never.
Most, if not all, national unions are headed by communists who funnel money from union dues to the D’rat/Communist Party.
I did some business at a large national union. I was working with upper management and I asked how they were going on this election as they usually back the Democrats, but that Donald Trump has a long history of hiring union workers on his projects.
The response I got was that he sometimes hired union and sometimes non-union and that union management was going to endorse Hillary, but they just didn’t care that much about it and didn’t have any real control of their members.
That’s pretty much what this article is saying.
Saying Teddy Roosevelt wanted ordinary working people in the Republican Party and Taft cared only about the corporatists could be compared to those who write-off, and hence don’t want, Hispanics in the Republican Party.
The skillful wordsmith doesn’t say so blatantly. But the group written-off takes it as rejection and reacts with rejection.
What I said was a direct and simple quote from TR, a plain speaking man. He understood that while industrialism was creating vast wealth among the few; it was also creating far more numerous better off citizens among the working class; a natural R constituency.
Taft, in contrast was your typical establishment flunky beholden to his paymasters in the moneyed class. As a result the GOP is derisively labeled the party of big business; to its strong disadvantage.
When opportunities are squandered, the consequences are lasting and severe.
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