If I can't have a pension and decent benefits why should they?

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43. Yes they spend alot of money on politics

And it's understanding to see why. Seeing as the opposition party of lawmakers are hell bent on destroying their bargaining rights, and making harder if not impossible to organize through legislation. They give money to dems to protect them from these assaults in a 2 party political system, and hopefully legislation that would help them. The Democrats have done a dismal job of defending unions. Obama proposed the employee free choice act. Obama was elected. The dems had the President,Senate, and the congress, and it never even came to a vote. The term card check is propaganda from the likes of the US Chamber of commerce. Card check is what we have now. Say you want organize your work place? You contact a union, and they will give you union authorization cards that say you would like to represented by the union. Lets say you got 10 employees, and 9 out ten sign the card that says they want to join a union. You would then turn those cards over to the union. Who will send them to the NLRB. After that there will be 45 days for a election. Here are some of the dirty tricks company will play. They will likely call in a consulting firm that specializes in union busting tactics. They will call in employees for mandatory meetings. For them to watch propaganda videos. Saying unions are violent thugs, and associated with the mafia. There will be illegal firings. And some comes might even temporarily restore benefits they've taken away, but after the election is over if the company wins you better believe those benefits will be gone soon after.

I wont lie I am quite bitter about what happened in Wisconsin last night. I am starting to think all labor unions should never give another dime to the democratic party, and look for some 3rd party to support.