They need to address the question of what purpose they serve, and be honest about it.
There is really no need for “collective bargaining”, other than enriching the union heads.
On the job safety is no longer an issue.
In the private sector, parasites eventually kill the host. In the public sector, parasites grow the host.
Absotutely.
With Card Check + amnesty (lots of semi-literate workers to organize) they can be back to where they were within about five years.
They have long lived past their usefulness or need......................
Why would an employer with half a brain want a union shop? A union is only for itself, not its members, not the employer. A union doesn’t make a company more profitable, it makes it less profitable.
A union gives an employer NOTHING. They cannot make their members show up every day; they can’t make their members not call in sick when they’re not sick; they can’t make their members give their best effort everyday.
Granted, there are some unions that at least make a pretense of offering their members training to keep and improve their skills, provide a good retirement (provided the fund isn’t raided by the fat cats before the members can retire). But in the end, a union mostly benefits their Organized Crime bosses.
The could reinvent themselves. But I don’t think they have the leadership to do so.
Well, they could go back to what they originally did — collective bargaining with large employers — rather than what they do now — lobbying the government for monopolies for their members and using their members dues to advance left-wing candidates and causes.
Can they reinvent themselves? No. Once a hooker takes the first dollar she is labeled for life. So it is with the labor unions. They sold out to world wide Marxist ideology decades ago. They are what they are.
Communists are not real attractive. Their racism sucks, too.
Oh wait. That wouldn't require much of a change.
if they stopped carrying water for the democrat party, and did what they are paid to do - advocate for their members - they wouldn’t be in this mess.
So when US Corps off shore manufacturing jobs now they are pretty much off shoring non union jobs. Great. < /sarc >
Is a union necessary if the government forces businesses to do what the union would have demanded?
Until the unions come clean with their tactics and how they are using the dues for their political gains. They deserve what they get. I was in the Teamsters and AFSCME and then the PSCOA all three have reasons to exists but when it comes to the memberships rights to direct their dues it is impossible.
The union thugs are waiting for the illegal alien invaders to sober up and finish coming “out of the shadows” so they can sign them up as union members at the same time that they are filling out the DNC’s voter registration forms.