Posted on 08/06/2010 8:27:25 AM PDT by NetRight Nation
Public sector unions continue to grow as a percentage of organized labor, and their sole function is to keep taxes high.
The propoganda flag is popping up on this one. Can’t buy into this argument.
There was a big fire in NY in a sewing factory. Several women died in the fire which was due to an electrical short. They unionized folks and promised them all good things.
What my granddaughter wasn't taught. That it's darn hard to find a "Made in America" tag.
In most cases, the original intent of the labor unions were fine. In any economic system there are those that will maximize their profits without considering the moral impact. For example, horrid working conditions, child labor, forced overtime without compensation, and worse.
But, greed and jealousy still rule the day. As the unions won their concessions, they continued to press and as a result, they became the immoral leaders—pressing the corporations (who were still focused on profit) to make THEM rich, at the workers’ expense.
If you look at most human issues, the problems of greed and jealousy will screw up everything.
I really challenge anybody to give me one good reason why any PUBLIC EMPLOYEE sould be ALLOWED to join ANY labor union.
Just one.
Freedom of association doesn't end when one gets a job working for the public.
>>> Were Labor Unions Ever Necessary?
Do some research on pre-union conditions in the coal mining areas of Appalachia. Carnegie had his own company police, and the miners had debts to the company stores.
The early agenda of labor unions was workplace safety. Yes they were necessary.
Since employment is a contract between the employer and employee, and the consitution prohibits federal interference in contracts how are federal child labor laws (or any labor laws) constitutional?
Without unions, there would be no fat-cat union bosses silly.
Nothing in this article says anything about the situations that caused unions to come into existance in the first place. The deplorable working conditions, the slave type ownership of workers by companies, the child labor rules, etc.
Have unions become monsters? Absolutely. Were they an important step towards fair and safe working conditions. You bet your bottom dollar they were.
We're all wallowing in the budget deficit in Cal and a big issue is the public employee pension. The cops and fire fighters (I am a retired peace office) can retire at age 51 with 90% of their salary for life.
I can list example after example of how unions screwed up the operations of various departments. When a union can bribe governors and state legislators the people who must negotiate and approve their contracts, what's the point? Many department directors became figureheads to unions whose officials had direct access to the governor's office and some who could actually walk onto the floor of the Assembly and state senate. I submit corrections and education as exhibits 1 and 2.
It's my opinion that unions brought good changes in places like coal mines 80-90 years ago, but by the time public employees got collective bargaining rights, the major battles were already over and we had passed the point of their necessity.
Because minors can’t enter into any legal contract? Why is murder illegal?
You’re thinking of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.
The workers were locked in the building and died.
That said, those original union workers only sought safe working conditions. Unfortunately it didn’t take long before unions recognized that they could force companies to do other things and they haven’t stopped since.
Just yesterday Glenn Beck played a clip of Obama speaking to the AFL-CIO and telling them that they need to take on the “special interests”. In my opinion, that makes unions purely political organizations and they should be held accountable as such.
Public sector unions have never had a legitimate place in our society.
It’s still not a federal issue. It would be a state issue.
It’s still not a federal issue. It would be a state issue.
Murder is a state crime and has nothing to do with the federal constitution.
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