Posted on 04/13/2015 3:00:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
To put it more briefly, lots of young people want a Communist state, but they want someone else to pay for it.
Dues haven’t gone up all that much. My USWA dues were $28 a month when I went salary in 1980.
I do believe that at times, workers need representation at the table with other business stakeholders, but unions have acted pretty stupidly for at least half a century and I agree with millennials, where is the value.
When the union took over GM, with the help of Obama, all the new hires got 15 bucks an hour and no benefits. Real nice, eh?
Don't be a dummy.
Don't work for a jerk.
Millennials want to be free spirits who do things at their own time. I suspect that joining a union means you’re tied down, even if it’s a cush job.
if the unions didn’t take member’s money and shovel it to the democrats and every left wing cause....if they used that money on behalf of their membership, they wouldn’t be in this mess
I would like to see public employee unions done away with, as the people that have to pay for their demands are taxpayers.
Millennials don’t like transients bumming up their trendy hangouts either.
Union membership takes a cut out of your paycheck for the dues as part of your membership. I can already see plenty of millenials not liking it one bit.
I know why the UCFW membership has fallen...I used work at Ames, Bradlee’s and Calder and I had to join the union to work there... all 3 are out of business. Ames at one time was behind Kmart, Target and WalMart in terms of stores.
We need a national right to work law and a total ban on union political contributions.
if the unions didnt take members money and shovel it to the democrats and every left wing cause....if they used that money on behalf of their membership, they wouldnt be in this mess
yes they would.... Unions are the HIVE.. in the collective..
the political BORG... fire ants.. and termites..
Because unions are for government jobs.
#1) Even in the “Hipster” crowd, entrepreneurship is fashionable, that means that the Millennial generation is very individualistic, and unions obviously are based on socialistic collectivist principles.
#2) Unions TAKE, but don’t really give much benefit, especially in the 21st century economy.
#3) The industries (or at least companies) that are hampered by unions are dying and so are the jobs-sometimes replaced by new technologies that are more efficient, they jobs that remain largely pay A LOT less than the same jobs in their parents and grandparent’s days..
#4) Unions have been discredited, and associated more with political Democrats than with better pay, working conditions which was their supposed “mission”. Unions aren’t god, and Millennials see and know this..
#5) Right to work and other efforts have successfully freed many from having to join.
I used to have a favorable view of unions in some of the construction craft trades, mostly because of the apprenticeship programs. I would expect a journeyman electrician from IBEW to have at least a basic knowledge of his trade. That went away completely when Richard Trumka, an avowed communist, became head of AFL-CIO. Unions are no longer about representing the rank and file. It is about brutal political power. When the union shut down Hostess, much gloating was there about sticking it to “The Man”, that will show him! What about the jobs that went away (shut up and do as the Party Boss tells you). Unions now just view the rank and file as tools, cannon fodder, while the Fat Cats running the unions (yes, I will refer to them as part of the nomenklatura) sponge off the people they claim to represent.
I am a dummy who worked at a job covered by a union ..retired at 50 years old ....and I am sure enough dumb...barely graduated from HS.....and I worked real hard at what I did...and I doubt you would even consider
a job in that field....I often wonder how much you would be making without a union....ooo I forgot your the smart one
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