[xzins]

There was a time when unions really were working people combining their efforts to market their commodity (labor.) I have no problem with that. It has a free market ring to it. If it's enforced with bats and clubs against other potential workers, then even that has a free market ring to it.

But then the democrat party moved in and made the unions simply a cash reserve of their political party. The politicians gradually applied the rubber band of restrictive legislation to the gonads of the labor movement.

These geldings began asking for the ridiculous....in work restrictions, pay, benefits, etc. They made non-issues such as abortion, parental rights, and liberal foreign policy a centerpiece of their agenda.

How could such a hodgepodge of inanity survive?

[TXBSAFH]

I could not have said it better.

[niteowl77]

If it's enforced with bats and clubs against other potential workers, then even that has a free market ring to it.

I once had a thug lean over my line and whisper to a co-worker that the co-worker's wife was a cute little thing... and that it would be a shame if something happened to her if he quit the union. Is that the kind of free market ring you were talking about?

[cgbg]

There was a time when unions really were working people combining their efforts to market their commodity (labor.) I have no problem with that. It has a free market ring to it. If it's enforced with bats and clubs against other potential workers, then even that has a free market ring to it.

Ouch.

Bats and clubs and free markets are opposites. Please don't confuse them.

So are unions and free markets.

Unions and bats and clubs, on the other hand, belong in the same sentence. :-)

(Just had to unlearn ya that Commie English the Lefty prof taught you in college.) :-)

[DUMBGRUNT]

reform-aflcio
http://reform-aflcio.blogspot.com/2004/09/apostle-of-corporate-unionism.html

Douglas McCarron and his half million carpenters left the AFL some time ago.

From link:
McCarron, 53, cultivates friendships with the nation’s major general contractors. Speaking to delegates at a National Erectors Association, he said: “You need to assign the work based on what makes sense. If there’s a dispute, let the owner settle it. It’s his money and his job.”


McCarron saw it as smart politics to develop a friendly relationship with President George Bush, inviting him to Labor Day picnics and union headquarters and, in return, getting to ride with the president on Air Force One. He has supported the White House on a number of issues, including the expansion of oil drilling in Alaska.

[Iscool]

But then the democrat party moved in and made the unions simply a cash reserve of their political party. The politicians gradually applied the rubber band of restrictive legislation to the gonads of the labor movement.

The Republican 'Party' represents big money...The Democrat 'Party' represents the working people...Nothing new...No secret...

If the Republican Party has their way, the U.S. will look like China in an economic and environmental and social sense...If the Dems have their way, we will look like Russia...

What ever happened to the 'Party' of the Founders of the Country???