Posted on 09/14/2011 7:40:29 AM PDT by Graewoulf
With the very successful bankrupting of America by Dictator Obama, Dodd-Frank bill/law/bill, un-Constitutional Entitlement taxation laws such as Social Security System, MediCare, MediAid, and obabmatrauma"care", does America really need to continue to allow our Labor Unions to exist? Is this not overkill?
Look at the record of the Teacher's Union in 2008: they supported a candidate that was totally incompetent, and totally without experience to take over running the world's largest business, which is the US Federal Government.
One would think that teachers would be educated enough to distinguish between competent and incompetent, qualified and unqualified. It gives one pause, as these are the same teachers who are being paid by us to teach our children THEIR values.
Now that America has been so successfully bankrupted, do we really need this much overkill? The Liberal's Welfare State has won, and we all promise to learn Chinese, hire only illegal aliens, and keep on voting for those who promise to burden us with the most debt possible.
The debt-creators have won, but do we need to have Labor Unions to continue to bully us around?
Hopefully, the New Jersey Law against Bully Behavior can be approved by the NINE SUPREMES, so that all of America can be protected from those bad bully bastions of behavior beneficial only to Labor Unions, and their spawn.
Railroads
Steel
Autos
Manufacturing in general
Unions should be destroyed, ground into dust and their leaders imprisoned.
I would think a Mine Workers Union might be necessary.
Can America afford to allow ANY Labor Unions to legally exist. NO!!
More “crony Capitalism” at work. Unions get special benes from gov. thereby giving them an advantage over business and schools.
I was forced into union membership in my first job and it was not a good experience.
The good that unions COULD DO do and DID is done. NOW, unions are hide out for bad workers and an impediment to labor and prosperity.
What is worse, unions have consistently aligned themselves with the enemies of the United States and they have influenced (continue to influence) national politics in a way and to an extent that is out of all proportion to their actual numbers.
People have freedom of association and the right to enter into a contract. That said, people have freedom from association and freedom not to enter into a contract. Banning labor unions is unconstitutional... as is taking away one’s right to work or to enter into their own employment contracts.
Unions are nothing more than legalized extortion against the job creators of America. They are enemies of the people. Unions need to be outlawed, fully investigated for illegal activities and the guilty within swiftly and severely punished.
The phrase used by the big guy that “behind every economic catastrophe is a powerful union” was pulled from some writing I did I am proud to say - and lets you know how I answer this question.
People who want to abolish labor unions really need to read a bit of history about the world before they existed and what prompted their creation.
I am NO fan of “big labor”, but I understand what unions really can do for the “little people”. Seriously.
That said, they need to be contained, just as businesses are to be contained if their power gets out of hand. And there is NO place for unions in government jobs. That really SHOULD be abolished.
I think making every state a “right to work” state would effectively cut union power down to something more manageble and “fair” to both sides.
Unions were based on Marxism...still are.
You left out the “public” sector unions which have destroyed the educational system and have many cities and even states looking at huge deficits in their budgets due to union wages and benefits.
Similar story with my late father.
“The good that unions COULD DO do and DID is done. NOW, unions are hide out for bad workers and an impediment to labor and prosperity.”
Bingo! I watched as the unions destroyed Pittsburgh in the late 60’s and 70’s. I think that’s when I became a Republican
I am NO fan of “big labor”, but I understand what unions really can do for the “little people”. Seriously.
This statement lends some degree of altruism to unions in general. I’m betting that right from the start, it was more an issue of what tens of thousands of “little people” could do for a union than the other way around.
I have had to deal with unions for a long time (I’m 65) and I have yet to find one that was anything other than a fundraising tool of organized crime. Period. End of discussion.
Exactly correct.
ALL unions need to be made illegal. I’d put most union officers in prison where they’d feel at home.
Unions should be destroyed, ground into dust and their leaders imprisoned.
Yep. The concept is noble (honest days pay for an honest day’s work) but like anything else, man corrupts.
—I’m betting that right from the start, it was more an issue of what tens of thousands of “little people” could do for a union than the other way around.—
Well, I think it was both. Before unions, the “labor ready” concept was a fact of life for many americans in blue collar jobs. Every day you showed up to see if you were one of the ones picked that day. And the wages sucked because there were 500 guys standing there for 300 jobs and no minimum wage. They paid just enough to keep people from lashing out.
Unions gave people a steady job with a living wage. That is a good thing. But just like government or business, it can get too big and too powerful. That is what should be avoided. And just like business and government, it attracts people into leadership positions with less than honorable intentions.
If workers who have not been indoctrinated or intimidated, and who are not public employees CHOOSE to unionize, that is their right. But Right to Work should be the law of the land.
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