Posted on 02/24/2011 9:01:05 AM PST by Choose Ye This Day
Do you have a favorable view of labor unions?
This is any and all labor unions we dislike, right? Whether public or private?
Ping.
Question’s pretty vague. I guess it’s your overall perception of ALL unions, public and private. Like ‘em or not?
Thats like asking you, if you like businesses. Um, well, I like some and I hate some
Unions promote mediocrity. If you are good you don’t one to be in one as you cannot be promoted until someone dies and if you bad, you need them to keep your job.
Well, they didn’t have my first choice, which would be “I’d pay money to see every union-loving puke hanging from a lamppost”.
So I voted “No”.
Do you have a favorable opinion of labor union bosses?
Absolutely a left rag!
big unions, government unions (of all flavors) I despise. Small unions on the other hand I have less of a beef with provided membership is voluntary.
Don’t misinterpret the results. People are probably voting “no” because they are union members and think their union doesn’t do enough to get them more benefits.
I suspected as much. It had that ‘smell’ about it.
Yup, the question if vague, but in context one has to answer “no”.
I’d divide labor unions along two axes: public sector/private sector and labor union(proper)/trade union.
The latter distinction needs a little explanation since the AFL-CIO blurred the distinction: A trade union is essentially a medieval guild. They try to get a state-granted monopoly for their members to provide some service (e.g. plumbing installation and repair now days, weaving woolen cloth back in the Middle Ages). Classical labor unions were simply the workers in an industry banding together to negotiate better employment terms from employers, and unlike trade unions do not need a state-granted monopoly to function. (Though they often sought such arrangements — hence an axis, not a dichotomy.)
Quite frankly, the only sort of unions American conservatives should support are private sector labor unions that don’t try to get state-granted monopolies. I’m not sure any of those exist any more, though in their early days most American labor unions (as distinct from trade unions) would have qualified.
The most contemptible of unions are public sector trade unions, most prominent, the teachers’ unions — they get a state-granted monopoly (”teacher certification”) and “negotiate” against the interests of the tax-payers.
Despite the fact that it is a leftist rag the NO vote seems to be winning by a wide margin.
Why won’t it accept a no vote?
To quote Sam Kinison, “They can fall under a gas truck and taste their own blood”.
Dunno. It did for me.
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