Thanks a Union 36 Ways Unions Have Improved Your Life by New Deal00 at Daily Kos

[applegrove]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/15/1092027/-Thanks-a-Union-36-Ways-Unions-Have-Improved-Your-Life

by New Deal 00 at Daily Kos


"SNIP.................................................................

36 Reasons Why You Should Thank a Union
Weekends
All Breaks at Work, including your Lunch Breaks
Paid Vacation
FMLA
............................................................SNIP"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/15/1092027/-Thanks-a-Union-36-Ways-Unions-Have-Improved-Your-Life

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R (nt)

[Populist_Prole]

2. We should not take what they have provided for granted

All too many believe the tag line by the softshoe corporatists that union were needed then but not now; as though all these perks are somehow grandfathered in by natural law.

The outspoken corporatists would gut the lot of them with no hard feelings.

[freshwest]

3. And already have in some fields. Keeps the rat race mentality going strong.

[limpyhobbler]

4. They don't teach this enough in history class.

They don't teach enough about the fights that people had to make to earn these things, for themselves and for us.

We shouldn't take these for granted, because any of these could be taken away.

[Overseas]

5. K&R. Yes please!