Democrat's Apathy For Unions Is Suicide

[Dragonfli]

161. Well, us blue collar Democrats don't look down on them because the only ones of us even surviving

are Union members. The rest of us are not even talked about (the poor). I think you are referring to white collar Democrats and limousine liberals that are even higher up than white collar and I agree with your assessment concerning them.

All of us 'take a shower after work' types are looked down upon these days, the least well among us tho very poor are not even a thought, more like an embarrassment the party never talks about, being beneath the blessed middle class and all.

In my area that would be most of us because there are extremely few actual union jobs and few of us can get them, and to get them you really have to rely on nepotism, but that is another discussion.

We definitely want more unions and some actual union jobs available to us, but most of them were lost with manufacturing. I am a tradesman and did not have the connections to get in a union, so I have struggled for quite some time, the only union work for us here are government projects (few and far between), residential work is all done by local contractors that can not get any work if they bid using union scale, the few shops that are union take what little gov. projects are up for bid, there simply is such little union work available that they may as well not exist here. I can't speak for the rest of the country.

My dad was union before they closed down the steel mills and could never find union work again. There is a bigger problem here than lack of support for unions, there is lack of work for unions since the off shoring began with reagan and China and continues to this day with shipping of everything else via Democrat supported free trade.