Posted on 08/31/2017 11:04:44 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I believe every citizen deserves the right to work and the right to organize and I don't believe these rights should be mutually exclusive
I come from a union family. I grew up in a union home. The good pay and benefits gained by one of America’s greatest unions provided for my room and board every day that I lived at home. My father and my uncles were all proud union members. My brother and some of my best friends spent their entire careers as union workers and the unions are providing them with generous pensions and great benefits. I myself was at one time the Vice President of an International Union. For all of this I am grateful.
The right to organize is a time honored American tradition and one that I believe is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Peaceable assembly is the hallmark of American union organizing.
I have no faith with mushy politicians, who constantly cave to public sector unions. It is not their money, they do not care
I have been in Unions (even helped bring in one where we had an intolerable boss). And management.
In various conditions from age 17 through 60. All I can say is UNIONS SUCK. They are WORSE than management in every possible way. They are either thieves, Marxists or can be both under certain conditions.
Perhaps in the days of the robber barons around 1900 they were needed.
Today they are not only un-needed, they are helping destroy America.
Study what has happened to Right to Work in Missouri in the last couple of years and one can easily see how self-serving they are.
Does this question really need multiple choice answers? Goodness, this is not rocket science!
RTW undermines the seniority system, which is the stick unions use to keep their members in line.
On the Water Front with Marlon Brando is a great depiction of what unions are or want to be about.
I coulda been a contenda. You wuz my brudda Charlie.
With Right-To-Work a Union loses its monopoly and its power to demand advantageous contracts.
The unions also demand the same pay for different levels of competent work. I have been forced to be in 5 unions in my lifetime, or not get the job. I witnessed many a slacker get the same pay as the MOST productive worker in the group. A Travesty-—at the least.
Guess what? They ARE mutually exclusive.
Unions rely upon their ability to use violence and sabotage to prevent a business from operating with replacement workers in the event of a strike. Otherwise a strike would just become a mass resignation.
In normal environments, if you don't like the pay and conditions, every worker has the right to quit and find a better job elsewhere. Since the invention of the automobile, every person has lots of potential employers within an hour's drive.
Because all they care about is lining their own pockets. (That’s why they’re “progressives.”)
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