Posted on 04/11/2014 5:16:32 PM PDT by SMGFan
Note: this topic is from . Thanks again SMGFan. Re-ping.
I have no problem with private sector unions that don’t engage in thuggery when they don’t get what they demand.
Collective bargaining in the public sector must be outlawed. The taxpayer is not represented.
Doubtful you’ll find a conservative in union management.
30 or 40 years ago you would have found a good number of anti communist union leaders in the building trades, East Coast Longshoremen, etc. There are not any now.
I should add I was president of a union local that was part of the Maine State Employee Association-SEIU.
Unfortunately, that’s such a foreign concept now.
Fellow communist
After George Meany died and Lane Kirkland retired, the leadership of the AFL-CIO started its shift to the left.
The passing of union leaders in the 1970’s and 1980’s was the end of an era. Their replacements were far more liberal and leftist.
I had family members and neighbors involved in the “Hard Hat riot” in NYC in 1970. I will say as a former PBA delegate, that most uniformed service member unions are still Conservative at least up to the state level.
Actually my union local has a majority of Republicans as members. And we all get along reasonably well with management. Negotiations have gone rather smoothly for the past 30 years. But then again, the SEIU field rep sits and only does and says what we tell him to do and say.
After the Maine State Employees Association became part of the SEIU, the locals representing the State Police decertified and formed their own union.
I believe you, I’m talking national leadership of unions in general.
Communist front organizations and criminal enterprises, in league with the Democrat party.
With the exception of a few unions I agree with you completely. Part of the problem that I saw was that as the old guard retired (all of whom worked in the industries before becoming union reps), the new people coming in did not have that experience. Many had degrees in labor studies. Also, more and more unions hired staff members who were pretty hard left and so it began.
Meany was a plumber in his younger days, Gompers rolled cigars, Kirkland was a merchant marine office, and Harry
Lundberg (Ike want him to be his Secretary of Labor) saild
on merchant ships as an ordinary and able bodied seaman.
Both Lundberg and Kirkland worked on merchant ships during WWII.
Right, those guys were the real deal and were patriotic, just fighting for decent wages and safer working conditions.
The CPUSA was instructed by the COMINTERN to infiltrate the American Labor Movement, by the late 40’s it had gotten so bad that under Taft-Hartley, passed in 1947, Union Leaders had to swear under oath that they were not Communist Party members in order to serve.
That of course was repealed by 1960, lots of communists and criminals in leadership for decades now.
Yes they were the real deal. But the leadership of most national unions and more importantly their staffs are far left with a lot of Marxist/Leninism class war thrown in.
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