Unions exist to coerce employers into paying more that their members' labor is worth in a fair and open market.
Unions gain leverage in both ways they admit (fraudulent sick-outs, abandoning jobs they agreed to do, etc.) and in ways they do not admit to, but which are well-known (veiled threats of sabotage, violence, intimidation of replacement hires, etc.).
If any other vendors ganged up on consumers this way they would be looking at civil lawsuits and jailtime.
I'm glad to see there is no knee jerk involved.
You're talking to the wrong person. I have long and hardwon firsthand experience of union criminality.
Pro-unionism is a knee-jerk ideology. It is reinforced by emotionalist garbage like "Norma Rae", cheesy fake folk songs children are taught to learn and sing, constant positive reinforcement of unionism in the press and on TV, etc.
It takes brains and courage to break with this socialist conditioning.
Now you can go back to your crayolas.
You may be confused. I'm not a lazy union GM worker doodling in the job bank center and getting paid 95% of a salary. I'm a self-made man, not a parasite. I learned to read and write using a pen - no union meathead I.
"You may be confused. I'm not a lazy union GM worker doodling in the job bank center and getting paid 95% of a salary. I'm a self-made man, not a parasite. I learned to read and write using a pen - no union meathead I."
Ooooh, I guess I'm supposed to bow now?
Not a union meathead? Just a regular one? Look, it's that attitude that makes unions neccessary. Stereotype the entire union. All 125,000 GM workers are useless human beings. You don't care in the least that they're Americans. But you're a real patriot, right? There are probably union workers who coach your kid in baseball, or some other task you're way to important to do.
Most modern unions are bad, but not all unions are bad. Abusive employers are bad, but not all employers are abusive.
>>>Unions gain leverage in both ways they admit (fraudulent sick-outs, abandoning jobs they agreed to do, etc.) and in ways they do not admit to, but which are well-known (veiled threats of sabotage, violence, intimidation of replacement hires, etc.).
>>>If any other vendors ganged up on consumers this way they would be looking at civil lawsuits and jailtime.
Remember the bone that show up in the meat shipment to Japan that got our imports banned?
That happened at Atlantic Veal & Lamb, in Brooklyn NY. A la Workers’ Union, Local 155, employees.
Here is a cease and desist order for their behavior on previous occasions.
http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/decisions/342/342-37.htm
Am I saying that bone was put in that shipment as a form of activism? Well, I didn't say that. But just look at this thread as a lovely example of the behavior of our Union Workers.
I'll put my crayolas down now.