[Semi Civil Servant]

"Once, long ago, unions might have a had a legitimate purpose, but no longer."

--- txnativegop

There was never a legitimate purpose.

--- Neanderthal

These kids might have disagreed:

[bill1952]

A common misconception is that unions changed those things, rather than riding the wave of change.

Those things were changed by socially active Americans from all walks of life who didn't care one whit for union thuggery. - Not that all unions were crooks, but that's the way it went.

[LenS]

Child labor was cracked down on years before the unions came to power. It was the voters that stopped it. Not some union thugs.

[Col Freeper]

I was born in 1946. Everyone in our family, including the 7 kids, picked and hoed (sp?) cotton, as well as picking peaches, cherries, oranges, and any other type of labor for food, shelter, and other necessities of life.

Not once did we ever assume, or request, that some union guy would, should, or could "rescue" us from that honest work.

We gradually stopped doing that kind of work when better paying work came along, but we supplemented even that with summer migrant worker type jobs.

As far as the government employee unions, in my experience, they are nothing but cover organizations for the incompetent, "I'm a victim" employees enjoying taxpayer funded jobs/benefits, without either appreciating their jobs, nor providing good service to their customers, the American public.

Firing an incompetent Civil Servant is an exercise in futility that few American taxpayers could even remotely understand. But I do think they understand that the "union protections" for federal employees are not there to "improve the service, or the civility" of those employees.

I applauded President Reagan's action to fire the Federal Aircraft Controllers who went on strike. I wonder if you did, or would have?

[durasell]

Get kids off the streets and back into the coal mines and fields where they belong!