I grew up in a union family. My dad was in the Carpenters Union. They provided my family with amazing health insurance, back in the day, and my dad with a nice little retirement. On the flip side, they were as corrupt as anything. My dad told me that the head of the union, in NY State, got caught embezzling millions. Like ten’s of millions. No one seemed to care, as the union coffers were overflowing.
That being said, unions can be the devil. And when the unions and its bosses don’t get their way they get ugly. They’ve been trying to get in with some of the car manufacturers in Tennessee and, I think, Alabama. The South doesn’t do the union thing to easy. And the workers can see through the promises of the union organizers and bosses promising more money, etc. If the unions, in their attempt to get a hold of the Southwest workers, are doing some shady sh*t, f*ck them.
At the end of the day, the only people that get hurt are the customers and the mechanics, because they’ll be replaced.
So, in summation, unions can be scum...
“So, in summation, unions can be scum...”
No, unions ARE scum! My wife had an uncle who was a union carpenter all his life. When we visited, I chanced to see a copy of the union’s “magazine” there and looked it over. Communist Russia or China could not have written a more hateful tome! The visceral hate unions have for Capitalism is palpable.