Obama Levels Cheap Shot At Unions - Again

[daredtowork]

438. That's precisely why I got frustrated with the lack of strike support here

Unions negotiations bring up pay for *everyone* because they raise the entire market rate. The more unions and the more extensive union membership is, the better this effect can be.

However, conservative politicians who wanted to break unions in my area were able to exploit people who were chiefly dwelling on their own inconveniences to create non-stop complaints about how unions were disrupting their commute (when teacher's strike, the unions are hurting the children). These political attacks have been effective to the point where you - who are obviously very liberal - can say 90% don't belong to unions and advise me to choose my words carefully before calling these attacks on strikers "whining"!

Again, you are a person I'd particularly not wish to offend. It seems to me you don't realize that it's the GOP who are trying to dismantle unions, and that unions - when they are doing what they are supposed to do - protect wages and benefits of working people. When I've seen that "inconvenience" and short-sightedness is being used as a weapon of the GOP, it seems wrong not to point that out and support the efforts of working people to protect their wages, even if I do wish not to offend you. I'd much rather you not be offended by that.