Don’t kid yourselves, AFGE, AFSCME and the SEIU do just fine in Mississippi and the rest of the South.
Two of those are government worker unions and the other is just a Marxist stormtrooper front group!
AFSCME = Government = different kettle of fish
SEIU = illiterate wetbacks controlled by filthy Maoists = different kettle of fish
Really? Care to post some facts regarding that assertion you make? The last time I checked the BLS their stats showed that only 10% of the manufacturing workforce in the US was in a union. I am sure it is a lot less in the south.
Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation and industry
Public sector unions, which are not unions at all, but an organized money extraction agency to bully elected officials into paying them ever more for decreasing output of work, using funds collected from taxpayers and other revenue sources, cannot be fairly compared to private sector unions.
Private sector unions have long outlived their usefulness, in that most successful private employers are well aware that unless they treat their employees fairly (the original reason unions came into existence), they will suffer in the marketplace, as their best employees migrate elsewhere, and only the worst remain, who then organize into unions, eventually starving the private business into extinction.
Henry Ford kept the auto unions out of his plants when all the other automobile manufacturers were succumbing to their demands, by one simple expedient. Whatever the unions were demanding for wages or side benefits for their members, Ford would offer just a little bit more, so his employees had more take-home pay than the comparable employees in other shops, then he told the union organizers, that sure, if his people wanted to vote in a union, their pay would be DROPPED to whatever level was being paid in those other shops.
In 1937, at the gates to the Ford Plant in River Rouge, union organizers were severely beaten by the members of the “Ford Service Department”. The La Follette Civil Liberties Union (predecessors to ACLU) charged the Ford Motor Company and their head of security, Harry Bennett, with violations of the Wagner Act, a New Deal piece of legislation which was used to enforce the unionization of industry all over America. As the suit wound its way through the courts, Henry could see the writing on the wall, and in 1941, Henry capitulated to the unions. Nobody ever proved the union thugs were responsible, but the collapse of the resistance by Ford paved the way for widespread regimentation of the work force.
>> Don’t kid yourselves, AFGE, AFSCME and the SEIU do just fine in Mississippi <<
Uh, no. You need to check your facts. Mississippi is one of those sensible places where collective bargaining via unions is forbidden for most state government employees.
Government Unions should be Outlawed.