Democrat's Apathy For Unions Is Suicide

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227. As the mother of an experienced union electrician, I can add that there are increasingly

fewer jobs for union electricians of any kind, for a couple of reasons.
> the small shops cannot keep you fully employed even if they hire all union
> commercial construction collapsed in 2008 and has not recovered, no matter what they say
> many jobs use non-union/undocumented workers, whether it's as electricians, construction workers, plumbers, etc.

My son was lucky in that he had other skills (computer), but if he had had to depend on being an electrician, he would have starved.


My brother is a union radio operator on commercial ships. There are few jobs left for them, either -- mostly they have been replaced by computers.

Offshoring and technology, BY DESIGN, will replace any and every decently-paid job in the U.S. This is their way of breaking any power we have over them, and instituting the feudalism that they have felt was their due all along. Of course, climate change is very likely to wipe them out, too, but they've always felt that they'd rather have everything destroyed than to have to share with their 'lessers.'