Posted on 12/12/2012 1:35:18 PM PST by Kaslin
Won’t be much of a war, and it won’t be civil
Right now the UAW is batting zero at these auto plants.
I already declared “war” on the UAW years ago. I no longere buy their junk.
Alaska is still a unionized state. I had contemplated taking a position in Anchorage as a concrete mixer driver, pay would be better, more benefits, paid vacation and holiday pay, lots of extras.
But I chose to stay with a family owned company for the last 18 years, no vacation, holiday or sick pay, no health insurance at all. Actually no benefits at all, but its non union. Unions are good with taking care of you but so did slave owners.
I want Alaska to be a right to work state.
The government can mandate that you do.
Thanks, InJustice John Roberts.
Once upon a time, the need was obvious. Lockouts, pay cuts, big scab hires (they'd call it a "workforce replacement" today -- that is what Henry Clay Frick did in the infamous steel lockout at Carnegie Steel that made his name literally an epithet) enforced by goon squads of up to 400 armed Pinkerton men did happen, and employers drove men to death by working them 12-hour days in dangerous conditions. Hundreds of seamstresses died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and the Illinois legislature protected organized police beatings of union reps in Chicago beer halls in the 1870's by rewriting the state constitution to forbid carrying of firearms (sustained by a Gilded Age Supreme Court in Presser vs. Illinois -- Presser was a union man beaten into prison by the original Chicago bulls).
Even Milton Friedman once conceded that there would be no middle class today, had it not been for the labor syndicalist movement of the 1930's. But absent clear moves against worker pay, union leaders just have to recognize that their unions can be a tough sell, especially when they're mostly collection agents for the Democrat (Communist) Party, which is what they've become.
The real enemy of worker pay has been the Federal Reserve Bank, which uses the "repression" policy to steal savings and investments and suppress inflation-offsetting pay increases and COLA's. If companies once attacked employee pay directly, now they've farmed it out to Green Eyeshade Central.
Mass demonstrations and sideshows of thuggery were about their next-to-last card, if not their last one.
I think the only move they've got left is a Barky-led coup against the Republic.
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