Reply #87: Most of us are pro-worker and we know ...

[mntleo2]

...unions are the only game in town.

Unions have been selling their workers down the river for several decades. They kept screaming "Union rights! Union rights!" While ignoring worker's rights.

Believe me I am for worker's rights. I would die for worker's rights. However many unions have spent the last few decades giving away their worker's rights.

In my state about the only union that had enough kahunas WAS the teacher's union who refused to do what so many other unions were doing.

I watched my (carpenter's) union go out golfing and yachting with the management all the time and then (sob) tell us that we would just have to accept all their BS because (sob)management was having a tough time. Why if they raised our pay, they might lose everything ~ and we would lose our jooooobs! (turn on the tears here ...)

Management eventually took everyone's pension (paid into by their worker's own wages) and spent it on themselves when they went under leaving long time workers who had been with them for decades no job, no pension, nothing.

The last time I saw the owner he was stepping off his yacht to go to a football game. My BIL? At 70, he is working as a security guard after recently leaving the hospital with injuries incurred from working for that bastard errrr (sob) "poor man". The union did not help a bit ~ but you can be certain they were standing there with their hand out for those hefty union dues (over $100.00 a month) from minimum wage paychecks ~ and probably lining their pockets with all that pension fund money as well.

Just saying that unions have not been representing workers, they have been representing themselves. While they are the only game in town as far as worker's rights, the truth is they shot themselves in the foot and left their workers to die. Now they are crying because they gave away the store and are now expected to give away the pavement and the fire hydrant too.

It is about learning what NOT to do. It is about learning that thanks to what was given away that workers DIED to get, we are now going to have to go back to square one and DIE again in order to regain what we lost. If we are not willing to do that, then unions will die and so will workers anyway with unsafe workplaces and unjust work conditions.

My 2 cents
Cat in Seattle <---from the stock of WOBBLYS who warned of this coming if the following generations got slack, who taught me their history and it was not pretty.