Posted on 11/17/2014 3:25:49 PM PST by mdittmar
"The Sweetest Comeback in the History of Ever."
How’s that auto industry working for you union activists Joe?
None of those jobs went overseas did they? /s
Not only that, they hold kids hostage in the school systems, and force through things that are not in the kid’s best interests, but are for the union members best interests.
I detest unions with a passion.
Here in California they screw the kids and the state for their own gain. It’s almost akin to be a traitor to work in these unions.
I will say that in some jobs, it’s very hard not to be a union members, so that needs to be said also.
Same up here - the public school unions are the worst. They are, however, loaded with money, and are powerful beyond belief.
I also loathe the union mentality. I say that nobody should be able to teach until they have first spent at least 10 years in the REAL world work force.
That is why outside of government workers, unions are practically extinct in NJ. Many of the jobs they held are done not just by non-unionized workers, but outright illegal aliens.
I agree with that work rule (private sector).
In the university setting this is so much more critical, because these young kids are being taught terrible principals by people who have never worked a day in the real world.
Just don’t be standing by the door when the whistle blows and whatever you do, stay off the roads!
Actually unions are numerically irrelevant. Only 6 % of the USA workforce is unionized. There political power is way out of proportion to the number of union workers.
You’re right, it certainly not unions that account for it, but we do have exceptionally good workers. Go to Mexico City, or any resort town in Mexico and look at the quality of the construction. Look at the quality of the concrete, for example. It’s never as good as in the U.S., and sometimes it is shockingly poor. Then look at the construction workers here in the U.S. Many of them are the same workers you would see in Mexico. Why is what they produce here so much better? The best answer I can come up with is we enforce standards here, whereas in Mexico everything is subject to “mordidas” or petty bribes. Here, the concrete inspector does his job; there his job is not so much as inspect concrete, but to honor his family connections, and make as much money as he can.
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