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And, on union workers, I do believe there are many dedicated and hardworking members. The problem, as I see it, is the Unions encourage employees to be in an adversarial relationship with their employers.

Here is my opinion:

Unions, as a rule, do not believe in free enterprise or the benefits of capitalism.

There is no surprise in seeing that unions are started by, populated with and run by leftists. Communism, socialism and Marxism are understood and appreciated by these people even though most have never read a word by Marx, couldn’t explain what socialism is, and who don’t know anything about communism other than the Soviet Union “didn’t quite get it right”.

These people do not believe there is value in anything other than what people produce with their own two hands by the fruit of their labor. They believe capitalists and other middlemen exploit the people “who really produce things”. They think middlemen and capitalists are simply leeches who suck the value out of what the workers produced.

They are the people who never think for a second the dynamics of how a factory came to exist, that someone had an idea, thought it would be profitable and figured out a way to get a business of some kind started (often at great financial or personal risks to themselves) and built a business. The workers think the factory and the company should belong to THEM, even though their contribution to the existence of the factory was simply that they wandered in off the street one day and filled out a job application. They think they can make decisions about who works, how they work, how long, and how hard, and that they can issue a diktat to their employers by holding over their heads the threat of strike, shutdown or slowdown.

Contrast that with how I view my employer: They are my boss. They built the business. They gave me a job and expect me to do it so they can make money and I can work, earning money to buy food, shoe my feet and pay off my mortgage. If I think my job is unfair or unethical, I can leave and work somewhere else or work for myself. When I have my own company, I should be able to decide how much to pay my employees, what their job entails and what benefits I should give them and what hours they should work. I believe that treating people fairly and decently provides plenty of productive incentive, and I will get more out of them (and more profit) if I am fair rather than treating them like an unfair ogre.

Quite a contrast, eh?