Posted on 03/13/2024 12:58:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This article is not just a lie, but a damn lie. Stealing from Benjamin Desraeli.
I soooo despised that movie. It put her on my do not watch list. She’s a Hitlery acolyte and hangs with the most virulent antiAmerican loser Jane Fonda.
I seem to recall she got a celebrity “arrest” with the vermin Fonda a few years ago in DC. I thought she was dead…only to me it seems.
Who did they survey? Union members, families and retirees? Union staff? College students?
BS
What city, Evansville perhaps? I experienced the exact same thing working at the Whirlpool factory by Dress Regional Airport the Summer between my senior year in high school and before I left for Tulane in the early ‘70’s.
Then a few years later I took a position as a dispatcher to help pay for tuition which required me becoming a teamster. God, what a corrupt group of cons. It made Whirlpool look like church goers.
I liked the movie but still knew unions were BS.
Ft. Smith Arkansas
Yeah, I believe that they moved there and Tennessee, not sure about the latter after I separated. It was the unions ran them completely out of Evansville.
Whirlpool had five or six manufacturing plants in Evansville that had previously been called the Servel Corporation. Servel made iceboxes, later gas refrigerator. Then during WWII they made fighter plane wings and components for Nike missiles.
Whirlpool leaving Evansville for Arkansas just about killed Evansville in the mid seventies. That was one of the reasons I moved west. After college I could not beg, borrow or steal a job and I was a fresh college graduate.
Unions especially public sector unions should be abolished. They are extremely destructive.
B S
It all got moved to Mexico
What is so virtuous about union membership? Is it some kind of religious organization, perhaps some form of a cult? Once having declared fealty to the sacred aspirations of union membership. what are the costs of apostasy? Are you to be scourged in the public square, or is there further divine punishment to be visited upon the backslider stretching into eternity?
So many questions.
Bunch of communists - teacher unions being the absolute WORST...
You know as a conservative, maybe I shouldn’t care. The unions have done nothing for me individually. The truth is that manufacturing unions in this nation and the trade unions were instrumental in building this nation. We need those tradesmen, we need that manufacturing. We got enough DEI and social workers, we need some people to build, make and create! The unions need to see that conservatives support hard work, the trades, the blue collar jobs and not the illegals and handouts. Absolutely, screw the government unions, but the guys out there working and building, I support them.
And I suspect the 6% are concentrated in heavy industries such as steel, coal, and automobiles as well as the transportation sectors such as longshoremen, shipbuilders, and the merchant marine.
“UAW unions supporting democrats is insane, for example.”
You are correct. Something even more insane, the United Mine Workers, UMW, supporting Obama and other Democrats who want to shut down the coal mines.
Some of the best apprentice programs in the US are run by the building trade unions and also the maritime unions. Perhaps the best in the world.
Fresh out of high school I had a job in a union plant. My job was to load rolling carts with aluminum extrusions and take them to the stations where they were cut to length for sliding glass door parts.
My third day there I was called to the union steward who was in the maintenance shop and told to slow down because I was making others look bad.
My reply was, “Maybe you should speed up to make yourself look better.”
One of the better moments of my often misspent youth.
Unions are evil. I dealt with union workers...
Ditto. Eventhough I was a member of the IAM for 18 yrs. I hated it. I didn’t need their sloppy protections. All they did was fight for the ones whom shouldn’t be employed anywhere outside of doodie scooping. On top of that, their unwavering support for democrats was gut-wrenching. Once, I was ordered to vote for the dem for president. After refusing, he hollered and screamed uncontrollably.
Why did I stay since my competence and work ethic had no need for their protection? The pay, benefits and retirement were the best in my locale. Bar none.
>>Most US adults say decline in union membership bad for the country: Pew<<
Sorry, I don’t believe a word of it.
Unions can drive up wages for union members, but that leads to lower employment. Good for workers? I don’t think so.
My visual is that those inside the plant fence are doing well. Those outside the fence are unemployed due to the union.
Imagine if there never was a UAW union and the big three automakers had kept the market share they had in an earlier era. Employment would be through the roof.
You can see a similar phenomenon with the minimum wage. When there is the prospect of a significant wage hike, Walmart and other retailers automate more lines. Yes, it’s good for those who get to keep their jobs. It’s not so good for those let go and those who don’t get a job that otherwise would have been available.
Things are different in the public sector. I think the combination of unions and affirmative action (or DEI) has made featherbedding worse. I had a relative who worked for Von Braun. He thought the NASA of those days did more with 300 than is done today with 3,000 or 30,000. How much waste is possible? There is no limit.
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