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In reply to the discussion: Obama Levels Cheap Shot At Unions - Again [View all]whathehell
(29,067 posts)You get your workplace unionized by working to FORM a union -- something a lot of those
envious minimum wage "poor schlubs" never bothered trying.
Interesting that you say "You'll never get the upper middle class non-union types to support unions",
Really?..I honestly doubt that, because my husband and I -- both children of blue collar union workers --
are now considered "upper middle class white collar non-union whites", and we STRONGLY support
unions..Why?..Because we saw, first hand what unions did for our blue collar families, and unions -- and
The New Deal policies of which they were a part, can take some credit for our eventually becoming "upper
middle class" -- Something few children of blue collar families can hope for now.
I don't care about the whiney little gripes about unions -- The thing that MATTERS is that they give
ordinary workers POWER to determine their wages and their lives, and those of their families,
something no other organization so successfully has -- The rest is bullshit.