We moved to Fond Du Lac Wisconsin for three years in 1975. At that time MerMarine had been on strike for a long time. If I remember correctly there had been a murder, and those who crossed the line had their homes targeted and their families threatened.
This was the first time I had seen union thugs up close and personal and did not like it one bit. At that time the union almost killed Merc Marine and it took years for Fond Du Lac to recover economically.
Not feeling comfortable in that kind of environment we left and came back to Colorado before our daughter was born.
This formed my opinion that Unions hurt more workers than they could ever help and couldn’t care less about the town, the people in the town, the company they work for or their future. They are socialists bent on self-destruction.
I remember that, I was a teen then, but that affected a LOT of people back then.
This formed my opinion that Unions hurt more workers than they could ever help and couldn’t care less about the town, the people in the town, the company they work for or their future. They are socialists bent on self-destruction.
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Or, to put a positive spin on it, the unions just don’t have an end game (not a sustainable one anyhow.) They simply have a greedy end game (which is unsustainable.)