No, this is propping up unions.
This would be true if labor unions were against illegal immigration (which they once were). Logically, if labor unions wanted to protect union wages, they would oppose competition from illegal immigrant labor.
Today's labor union leaders are more interested in towing the Democratic party line than representing their own constituents, so they're now in favor of amnesty for illegals and liberal immigration laws.
#2 Correct. I hated being in a union when I first started working. Never again. All the complaints from your “brothers and sisters” if you made a nickel more then anyone else or wanted to do better and did not like waiting “your turn”. $500 a day should pay for a house!
FTA: “They earn more, but they don’t have guaranteed work,” Martinez said. About five years ago, the sheet metal workers union tried to organize Tinco workers, but Martinez voted against it, like the majority of his co-workers.
A sheet metal foreman in the union gets paid around $47 an hour, but cannot work independently, outside of union-negotiated contracts.
Martinez makes much of his money on the side, often earning more than $500 in a day on jobs over the weekend and after regular work hours. He works with his brother, whom he persuaded to emigrate from Mexico a decade ago, and his 24-year-old son Javier.