[DuckFan4ever]

Unions should exist for two reasons.
1. Collective bargaining.
2. Employee advocacy.

Unions have no business in politics or spending hard working Americans $ on lobbying.

[samadams2000]

I guess you can only scare people for 40-50 years huh?

[Alberta's Child]

Not only that, but in most cases organized labor only advances its own destruction every time it lobbies in Washington on behalf of a specific bill.

One of the major factors in the demise of labor unions is that their lobbying efforts have made them extraneous. Over the years they have successfully lobbied various levels of government to legislate things that unions used to work hard to win in the collective bargaining process. Now that we have minimum wage laws, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, mandatory "family leave," etc., these unions have become pretty useless.

[bitt]

'Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. But these union members have virtually no say in how their unions spend their hard-earned money.'


'Unions should exist for two reasons.
1. Collective bargaining.
2. Employee advocacy. '

Members should be shouting, "Shut Up and take care of your members".

Imagine the anguish of watching these hacks waste your money year after year and often having little say in donating your dues to begin with?