Trump supports that cause now.
Most union members don’t make anything, no skin off their nose if you drive a Honda.
Most union members don’t make anything, no skin off their nose if you drive a Honda.
Labor unions are global entities now......................
People want cheap prices. NAFTA and allowing China into the WDO priced them out of jobs.
Unions are such a small part of the non government workforce they have almost no influence.
I check where everything I consider buying is made, and the country of manufacture matters a lot to me. I also check for the union label. If it says “UNION”, I will not buy it. I am disappointed in those who just look at price.
Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it.
"But I was talking with a person who I wouldn’t necessarily agree with politically. It was a person who’s very senior in the AFL-CIO, and he was telling me this story. It was—it was a dinner, so there were ten of us listening to this story, and it was about how he heard, in a closed-door session, a very senior executive at one of the world’s largest investment banks, and the question was posed, well, don’t you worry about the effects of globalization on this group of people who you share this country with, and his response was, why do I care about them—you know, I don’t—they’re not shareholders of mine—they’re not employees of mine—my shareholders are international—my business partners and customers are international—my responsibility, consequently, is much more international and I, frankly, don’t care about those people in the middle of the country."
In other words, America is only a piggy bank to them. There is zero loyalty to the people or the concept of America.
I work with union guys. They are all misinformed hypocritical gun-toting marxists who act like mafia if you don’t agree with their propaganda literature.
You can’t even get them to reason because they’ve been spoon fed the social-gospel since joining.
What happened? The unions happened, worker greed happened, and that priced a lot of goods out of the reach of a great many Americans. Why else do you think so much production was sent to third world countries with low wages, taxes and restrictions?
The union guys were patriots at one time but the union lawyers turned unions into racketeering enterprises.
When you have millions of union members paying $50 every paycheck, what do union lawyers and politicians see?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
So it’s not surprising politics got into bed with unions.
Eventually, the hard left took over the franchise.
As for the Japanese. their products were sh*t in the 60’s. Then along came their industrial savior who just happened to be a jilted American that union and corporate lawyers told to take a hike. Who was this American?
W. Edwards Deming
http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management/overview/deming-points.html
While the American establishment and their union bulldogs were telling Deming to go eff himself, the Japanese invited him to Japan, gave him the red carpet treatment, and followed his every word.
By the 1970s and into the 1980s, Japanese manufacturing and engineering quality controls under Deming’s philosophy were kicking American butt all over the place.
Then along came Reagan and we know or should know the rest of the story.
Now it’s time to bring back American manufacturing to the levels before the hard left ruined it and remind union workers to pay attention to the lessons left by Deming.
My dad was a union guy. My grandfather was a local president for decades. That was in the 60’s and 70’s. These guys were the most pro America, patriotic guys in the world. They marched in the 4th of July parade, organized with the American Legion to put flags on vets grave markers, started their meeting with the pledge of allegiance etc. I wonder what they’d think of what’s going on today. And BTW, they were democrats through and through...you know, because the democrats cared about the little guy.
I will say this about the unions:
They all have, for the most part, programs that take B/C students out of high school that will pay them to train them on the skill represented by that union.
The pay is good too - sometimes as high as $25/hr to learn the trade (six weeks per year) and then practice it ( 48 weeks per year) for two years.
They then must work at a union shop for two years.
No debt.
Funny - I don’t see the big tech firms offering anything like that.
I see them importing that from India.
The unions, for whatever reason, don’t even bother to make hay with it either.
I know whereof I speak - I live in one of the most heavily unionized cities in the United States, and have researched this for kids in my unit to steer them toward something that isn’t going to turn them into an educated debt slave for life.
I’m not pro-union, but they are doing something about the skilled employee problem that doesn’t involve importing cheap labor from overseas.
That latter bit is why I can’t stand Republicans. If you are for H1-B visas, you’re a traitor. That simple.
I can’t think of a more overt form of generational theft than that. At least with a Democrat, they tell you right out they are going to rob you.
Republicans? They’re solution to Democrats robbing you is to keep you unemployed.
A pox on both.
We’re long past needing unions to help the laborers. Union bosses lining their pockets have nothing to do with buying American.
The big American automakers took a sledgehammer to buy American.
Then they scattered the pieces.
Remember that union ad with the song “ look for the union label”?