Posted on 09/05/2011 6:05:02 PM PDT by freespirited
Unions have closed shops and love them. As a condition of EMPLOYMENT you must join the union. Then the company or a local/county/city/state public union takes their union dues right out of your paycheck before you even get paid. You have no say or choice in the matter.
Then these unions turn around and give 100’s of millions to the most left wing liberal democrat politicians (99% of all union political contributions go to democrats).
It is UNAMERICAN.
Source:
Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
In a free society, groups of individuals in the private sector should have the right to collectively bargain, however, at the risk of being collectively fired. Collective bargaining against taxpayer dollars should be outlawed.
Government should stay out the way except to protect against criminality.
So often it’s not even about what the workers want.
I take orders from a boss and he pays me very well for that privlage. If he came to me and told me that I was going to have to pay him to give me orders I would quit.
Any normal person would.
Most people don't realize that this is the worst behavior of unions. While companies are focused on negotiating over wages and benefits the "work rules" slip in without much attention. In the end these rules are enormously expensive because it limits the flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions and to employ the best employees.
Think that there can't be that many rules? Here is the UAW contract with Ford, all 2,215 pages of it.
They are Communists.
Been dealing with unions for decades - from both sides of the bargaining table - and I’ll add my contributions to the list as well !
As a “summer employee” in a steel fab shop I’ve been in the position of that 16-year old grocery clerk. When seeking a teaching position I soon learned my dual major studies didn’t count as high as an EeD with a “teaching field” when it came to placement. In the construction/mining business it was too often “seniority over skill” when time came to demonstrate your expensive equipment. In government its always “seniority/connections first” regardless of the individuals’ education/personal suitability/capabilities to perform the duties assigned.
What’s really sad is unions could be such a strong force for “good things” in the workplace; if only they’d abandon the combative mantras of Lewis and Hoffa. >PS
The next president should issue Executive Orders to abolish public unions, and to prohibit funding private unions with public money.
I find it amazing how unions so often make inflexible demands that wind up killing their members’ jobs. One might recall how Eastern Airlines was driven out of business by a union that wouldn’t let up on its demands even though the company was ailing financially. The same thing happened to the New York World Journal Tribune newspaper in 1966. When the unions struck the London Times and refused to go back to work despite considerable concessions by management, the owners gave up and sold the paper to Rupert Murdoch, who fired the union workers and replaced them with machines.
They got a waiver excusing them from ObamaCare while THEY were shoving it down OUR throats. That’s bull****.
Your typical union election revolves around which candidate proposes to do get the most concessions from a given employer. As a result, they is a never ending battle to see who can do the most damage to a business. Over time, of course, this leads to the inevitable destruction of every business and/or industry that becomes unionized. Public employee unions survive longer because they have more resources to tap into (read:taxpayer), but make no mistake, they will eventually exhaust theses too.
I can find more as well, but those are at the top.
They allow drunks like my brother to continue to drive even with several DUIs on his record.
Unions protect some workers who would be fired on any other job. They allow dangerous workers, like my brother, to endanger us all
#6 a ready reliance on and justification of physical violence.
What happens when employees are empowered against the crushing unions?
After Colorado in 2001 required public employees unions to have annual votes reauthorizing collection of dues, membership in the Colorado Association of Public Employees declined 70 percent.
In 2005, Indiana stopped collecting dues from unionized public employees; in 2011, there are 90 percent fewer dues-paying members.
In Utah, the end of automatic dues deductions for political activities in 2001 caused teachers’ payments to fall 90 percent.
After a similar law passed in 1992 in Washington state, the percentage of teachers making such contributions declined from 82 to 11
A UNION MAN’S DOG
Four workers were discussing how smart their dogs were. The first was an engineer, who said his dog could do math with calculations. His dog was named T-Square, and he told him to get some paper and draw a square, a circle, and a triangle, which the dog did with no sweat. The accountant said he thought his dog was better. His dog was named Slide Rule. He told him to fetch a dozen cookies, bring them back, and divide them into piles of three, which he did with no problem. The chemist said that was good, but he felt his dog was better. His dog, Measure, was told to get a quart of milk and pour seven ounces into a ten ounce glass. The dog did this with no problem. All three men agreed this was very good and their dogs were equally smart. They all turned to the union member and said, What can your dog do? The union member called his dog whose name was Coffee Break, and said Show the guys what you can do. Coffee Break went over and ate the cookies, drank the milk, crapped on the paper, screwed the other three dogs and claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance for unsafe working conditions, applied for Workers Compensation, put in for FMLA, filed charges with the N.L.R.B. and the E.E.O.C. , said he was sexually harassed, and was awarded permanent total disability for Situational Depression after returning from sick leave.
I was once bumped by a janitor out of a transformer coil winding job because of seniority. He couldn’t even read a blueprint. This is not a knock on janitors.
Those “combative mantras” long predate Lewis & Hoffa!
You are not going to believe this but federal labor laws actually allow union violence.
Read “FDR’s Folly”, its incredible what FDR’s labor lackeys allowed to be codified into labor law.
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