Posted on 02/27/2011 2:43:51 AM PST by Scanian
Where would we be without labor unions? We would be much better off.
Americans do not understand what "labor unions" mean. Nothing prevents a group of workers at a plant or office from getting together, signing an agreement which delegates power to negotiate contracts to certain representatives, and then proceeding with collective bargaining by those workers who chose to sign the agreement. That is not unionism; it is simply a business arrangement, much like when an athlete has an agent or a client has a lawyer.
The problem with unionism is that those who do not feel such an agreement is needed are compelled to surrender their right to bargain for their working conditions and compelled, as well, to support a vast, expensive bureaucracy of labor satraps. It is coercion of workers masked as industrial democracy. If 49% of the "represented" workers want a wage freeze but more vacation time, and that is not the official union position, then the union bosses are working against the interest of these workers. If many workers feel union rules reduce efficiency, and so the prospects of more jobs, those workers have to pay for the privilege of their representatives doing exactly the opposite of what these wish.
Coerced unions were always unnecessary, wasteful, and immoral -- and all unions today are coerced unions. Depending upon whether a state has a "closed shop" (only members of a union can be hired, and these must comply with union rules) or "union shop" (new employees must join the union after being hired), if a state has no right to work law, employers must negotiate with the union instead of the individual worker. Only 22 states now have right to work laws, although robust Republican state governments could add six more states to that column...
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I worked two summers in a TWUA shop when I was in college but wasn’t required to join the union because it was considered a temporary job. All I kept hearing from people on the job was “slow down”. They didn’t want to look bad and that’s what I was doing, making them look bad. I was tired at the end of the day, but it was that good kind of tired where I knew I earned my pay. My job took me all over the mill and I eventually discovered all the union hiding spots. I was very neutral, if not totally ambivalent about unions prior to that experience. That changed it all.
“Take a quick glace at Broward and Palm Beach Counties in FL, their demographics and voting habits and see how broad you think the brush is.”
I understand what you’re saying. Much work needs to be done to correct areas like this. About 600,000 Michigan residents left that hellhole for other places, and most are hard-working individuals or entrepreneurs.
One day you will have a rude awakening I fear. They almost always start voting for what they left behind.
anyone have any idea the $$$$$$$$ involved in union dues across the country in a years time?
**Then they were taken over by dedicated communists***
Commies have tried this in every facet of American life.
The tried to take over the movie industry in the 1930s but failed due to obstinate movie moguls. they have now succeded.
In Music they took over the folk music industry and infiltrated the following.
Teaching.
Preaching.
TV.
newspapers and magazines.
Democratic party.
They have hit us with everything they can on all fronts.
When I first started selling computers in the mid-60s, at Burroughs Corporation, I asked my branch manager why our production of systems took so much longer compared to our competition.
He told me it was because {being headquartered in Detroit} our production workers were union workers and our competitors were not.
I got a sales job with a different company {non-union} and rarely worked for a union company again.
I'd say never, but once or twice the company that I was working for was bought by a union company.
For me, during the 70s, 80s, 90s, the best computer/system/software companies to work for were start-ups {mostly California}, great commission plans and if the company really blew it out, the stock plans were terrific.
The one thing I really loves about sales was, if you did your job, made your numbers {or better} you were rewarded, if not you were fired.
Made sense to me, no union to protect the people that {for whatever reason} didn't make their number.
I got whacked twice, once my own fault, the other time not, but too bad, and life went on.
The unions were founded by card carrying communists with the intent of turning this nation in that direction.
My estimate would be in the single digit billions. As in one to nine, depending on the year.
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