Posted on 03/14/2011 9:04:02 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
Thanks for reminding us. I’m afraid all of us to some degree absorb by osmosis the socialist propaganda that constantly surrounds us at times.
Public sector unions are far more destructive than private sector ones because they can legally take your money for themselves. The exception is the GM bailouts. That is why there few private sector unions but mostly public sector ones.
Well put and very true.
I disagree, and here is why:
There are still companies, and I know the people who work in them, where there is absolutely NO protection, that included medical care after injuries. The pay, the hours, the conditions are early-20th-century-like, or worse. Supervisors choose who gets to work overtime and that means their friends get lots of money. Many companies get warned when OSHA is going to come in so they clean up and straighten up prior to the visit, and then go back to their old ways. All employers/owners/management are not kind-hearted, fair people.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad. Unions have gotten out of hand, but they are still needed in some places as long as those in charge at companies act inhumane.
Personally I’m wise enough to work on driving a wedge between public and private sector unions for a fight we can win against a divided enemy vs a fight we can’t win against a unified enemy.
I like my credit union. :o)
Oh, and don’t tell me, “They can go work somewhere else.” That’s a cop-out and not always possible.
Employees don’t like it, they can quit. Free markets do not require kind-hearted and/or fair people.
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort . . . This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government, . . . nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has . . . is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." - James Madison
I don’t have problems with unions in some dangerous industries like mining or highrise construction.
In the first sentence, the word "proper" should be "property," of course.
Excellent idea.
Truth of the matter is that unions are no longer necessary in this country because employees are very well protected by numerous laws enforced by the labor boards, OSHA, EEO, and others.
See post #8.
See post #1.
Have to agree, then subject remaining unions to, the same antitrust regulation that corporations are subject to and the same malpractice regs that docs and lawyers face,... and private sector unions will evolve into a positive segment of the competitive economy.
Allow property owners the right to use their property as they wish and unions will evolve into extinct decomposing crap.
I did. It is a rant of generalizations and screams.
All unions are not “government sanctioned theft.” Only the public ones and, for now, General Motors, are government sanctioned.
Public servants should never have been allowed to unionize in the first place, on that I totally agree. They were already protected by the government. Are Congresscritters unionized? Just wait, then we won’t be able to vote them out. LOL
I’m afraid the responses prove the main thesis of your essay. It’s absolutely pathetic.
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