Bravo!
perhaps if the unions started advocating for their membership rather than being in bed with the liberal democrats, people would see some benifit in joining, eh?
Unions+Democrats=Organized Crime.
That is one of the beetter headlines I've seen in a while!
Time to pass the NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK ACT!
My Grandfather was a Wobbly organizer (Workers of the World), but todays unions lost everything they once stood for and will one day have to fight for again in a different generation.
For today they can go to hell and go broke. They are right there with the ACLU imho.
I wonder how much money would be saved if government unions were abolished.
The union concept is a fading relic of the last century and needs to wither and die. It fosters shoddy workmanship, goldbricking on the job and unneeded costs to companies and consumers. It weakens our competative position as a nation. Unions and their partners in slime---the ratty sordid demoncraps need to go down in flames!
It’s always been part of a protection racket and don’t think otherwise.
You own a construction company, great. I can pull a few strings and make sure you get a particular contract for the reasonable sum of $50,000. Once you have it, you just cough up $10,000 each week or you’re going to have labor problems.
I’ll either arrange for them to strike, or I’ll arrange for some other union to set up a strike line they’ll be intimidated into not crossing. Pay up – it’s the cost of doing business.
It’d also be great if those proud, highly trained members have plenty of pocket change and be exceptionally well paid. People with plenty of extra money jingling in their jeans are much more likely to feed other parts of the business – prostitution, drugs, and gambling, primarily. So at contract time you better stand and deliver or your business will be damaged or destroyed because “we’ll” shut ‘er down.
Also nice to have members working at a variety of places. It comes in handy when you need a trailer full of cigarettes or booze. It helps to have someone on the inside that knows what is loaded in which trailer and where it’s headed and when. They can also provide things like keys, uniforms, and company ID.
There’s been millions of cases over the decades where someone will approach a driver, slip a $100 bill in his shirt pocket, and tell him that tomorrow morning on your first run, you’ll pull over and get coffee just like normal.
Then the next day he does. When he comes out the truck is gone.
An uncle of mine worked in loss prevention for Anheuser-Busch. In their region, depending on the time of year, their “leakage rate” approached 10%. That figure certainly isn’t “normal,” but it’d spike up to that percentage occasionally.
Now ask yourself – what the F do you do with a trailer (or two or three) full of beer? You aren’t going to drink it any time soon. Unless you have one hell of a big garage you aren’t going to store it there.
So what do you do? Exactly – you have to have someone with something like a beer distribution company. Someplace with a warehouse and loading docks and forklifts. Someplace where they can mix it in with the legitimately purchased beer and pass it off.
Then you realize that the local union president has a nephew that happens to own a couple distribution companies and one distributes beer. Hmmm… on and on. Beer, cigarettes, office supplies, building materials, auto parts, produce, plants from nurseries – it never ends.
There’s plenty of money in it. With that money you can feed the politicians (and with the members you can apply pressure) to make life a little easier on yourself. That’s how it has worked forever.
Oh, but now U.S. companies aren’t chained to their surly, combative, overpaid labor force. In a lot of cases the U.S. market is saturated and in decline. As their labor costs become increasingly silly and prohibitive, local and regional players come in to undercut them. It becomes increasingly attractive to concentrate your efforts where you can get the best return – Latin America and Asia.
And though those areas have a reputation for having a lot of corruption, it can be much cheaper to deal with the corruption there rather than the corruption here – at least for the time being.
Whatever… slow day here…
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