Have you ever known a former union member living on a good union pension that is anti-union?

[Ohioboy]

Such people do exist. I know several. There is nothing that says "first world problems" more than someone who has a good life and retirement going, yet complains about unions, especially when it was a union that helped them get what they currently have.

I'm to the point where I don't even try to reason with such people. I avoided a lot of discussions this Holiday Season.

[Sgent]

1. I know one that was a shop steward for years

and although pro-union but very anti-government / republican.

[dem4decades]

2. I know several, they can retire and play golf because they were in the union but love Trump.

And we're not talking about people in the Engineering and Scientific and Technical Unit. Though when I was in that union there were members that were Republicans.

[Collimator]

3. That attitude of. . .

"I got mine. Screw everybody else." is more common than we would like to believe. And more of those people tend to gravitate to the Republican party.

[DEbluedude]

4. Yes... It astonishes me.

And everyone one of those assholes I know are faux news addicts. We truly live in Dumbfuckistan.

[obamanut2012]

5. Yes, one of my cousins and my uncle

[blueinredohio]

6. Yes, I know a few. During our family Christmas my daughter(who belongs to a union)

said unions are not good. They take care of people who don't want to work and the company works the he'll out of everyone else. I told her without the union she wouldn't make the good wages she does and have no benefits. The company would work you even harder if you didn't have a union. And a union helped you have the good life you had growing up. I think every business should have a union.

[bluestarone]

7. Kinda comes down to. The Unions provided them with the BEST lifestyle THEN

They have money in the savings and 401 k's. AFTER that fuck everyone else!! YEA i see it too!

[Kingofalldems]

8. I know 2.

Trumpers who blame unions for everything and claim management would have given them a pension without the union.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Right? Out of the goodness of their hearts, no doubt!

[Dem4Life1102]

9. Only retired cops

who don’t acknowledge that they were in a union.

[comradebillyboy]

10. A lot of them are anti-Democrat however.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Short answer is Hell Yes.

[SharonAnn]

13. Yes, he is my BIL

[LakeArenal]

14. We know a staunch Republican once in a Union.

Until Scott Walker’s war on unions and the union-busting. Been Democrat ever since.

[jalan48]

15. Yes, and I have known retired government employees who are Republicans and

think their taxes are too high.

[Grokenstein]

16. Hell, I know a "dues objector" who's working here right now.

He's also a holier-than-everyone-else "devout Christian"...who cares more about his taxes than the homeless and hungry. If you argue either point with him, he'll just go into what I call "bobblehead mode" and say, "Yeaaaaaah, I knoooow, but I want the money" and try to change the subject.

What really shocked me is the number of Trumpublican union members out here who still desire a chance to lick Donald's anus. Shouldn't have been surprised, I suppose--it's grunt work, so yeah, a lot of bigots, frustrated wifebeater-wannabes and childish incels out here, plenty of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) cases and nitwits who would never question the most insane bullshit FOXHenhouse dumps on them.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

17. My dad is a retired teamster

said lots of lot of guys complain, but never refuse the checks

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Yeah, like half of them. Like everything else in this country.

[doc03]

20. Yes I worked in a union shop for over 40 years. The were many that opposed everything

the union did and complained about the dues all their lives but were happy to take all the benefits and now draw a good pension because of the union. They were also Republicans. The proof of this is what was called the Blue Wall states that voted for Trump in 2016
those were the states with the union jobs.

[badhair77]

21. I taught for 36 years. One coworker would not pay the dues, too cheap.

But he was first in line to grab the benefits. Plus he was an evangelical voting only red. Our union endorsed candidates based only on educational policies. That always meant Dems. He objected because they were pro choice. No one forced him to vote for them, no member dues went to those candidates, but that was why he would not join. Religious objections. Frankly he went to the Church of the Cheap. Yeah, I miss him. He’ll walk away soon with a bigger pension than mine simply because salaries are higher now. Grrrr . . .

[displacedtexan]

25. Sounds familiar.

Every time contract negotiations were set to begin, my inbox in the main office was suddenly stuffed with wish lists from anti-Union teachers. It's always the non-dues payers who ask for the moon.
I tore up those lists (always the unsigned ones) and threw them in the trash in front of everyone.

[Midnight Writer]

22. Yep, many. I was a Union officer for over thirty years.

And the anti-union members were the biggest pain in the ass people I have ever dealt with.

All complaints and no solutions.

[timms139]

23. No different than

all the people who get social security and other benefits and hate Democrats who got and protect those benefits from Republicans.

[pwb]

24. I was always in a Union

and I must admit they do exist. Most do not pay dues but still get the benefits of unionization.

[maxrandb]

26. No, but I do know a shit ton of Retired Veterans

with a pension and medical benefits most Americans can only dream of that think everyone in a Union is a socialist "taker".