“You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don’t you get stuck in a union.”
Not a good argument. That thinking lead to unions in the first place.
if these goons get their way, the best way to get ahead in their world would be to become one of them – a bloated parasite living off the labor of people who work for a living. But how could you live with yourself?
Ask just about anybody if the work they do is important and they'll likely tell you that they're the ones holding it all together. People (men especially) find their identities in their jobs; couple that with self-pride and you've got justification for being overpaid or needing a fat raise.
Private sector unions are on the wane, only 6.5% of the workforce is unionized. The ones remaining get a lot of attention because of scarcity.
There’s a lot of companies that are active spreaders of unions and unionism, some of them are big on American exceptionalism, patriotism and quality. Know who and what you’re dealing with.
One example: Carhartt
The sad part about it that the ‘OUR Walmart’ crowd doesn’t care that the demonstration failed. In a month or so they’ll tout it as a huge success that shook Walmart to it’s core.
It’s just another step on the road for them.
JB
The criminality of unions was there from the start.
The "awful and dangerous conditions"? People took those jobs BECAUSE they paid better, and offered better chances of survival, than staying on the farm. In an industrial job, you got paid as long as you worked, and you could be sure of being able to buy food and shelter. On a farm, you could work had all year and still STARVE if bad weather killed your crops.
The "bad and dangerous conditions"? People consciously gravitated to those jobs because they paid better than safe comfortable jobs, just as today being a roofer in the hot sun pays better than being a WalMart shelf stocker.
What the unions did was to hold the employer's capital hostage in order to extort better pay, by threatening sabotage to the equipment and violence against any who tried to replace them.
Apparently, the American protestors haven’t been told about what happened to a Walmart in Quebec, Canada. Last month:
Workers there voted to go union.
Wal-Mart closed the doors.
NOW—not only are those jobs gone, but the thousands of citizens who shopped there can no longer do so.
Shades of Mark Steyn in this article, very well done!
Unions are small potatoes compared to the problems created by free trade with low wage countries. Unions opposed the free trade agreements, which makes one time that we should have listened to them.
Unfortunately, either the Unions have lost focused, or the ‘rats are ignoring them, because neither party recognizes the problem.