Posted on 12/12/2012 5:21:40 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Many don’t know.
There are now more unionized government employees in the U.S. than in the private sector.
What is more insidious here, is your paying the government union bosses wages and paying 100 percent of all unionized government employee wages.
As long as Trumka keeps signing those checks he will continue to be welcomed.
Vincent Chin
From Wiki
a Chinese American beaten to death in June 1982, in the enclave of Highland Park, Michigan, United States in Greater Detroit. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The murder generated public outrage over the lenient sentencing the two men originally received in a plea bargain, as the attack, which included blows to the head from a baseball bat, possessed many attributes consistent with hate crimes. Many of the layoffs in Detroit’s auto industry, including Nitz’s in 1979, had been due to the increasing market share of Japanese automakers, leading to allegations that Chinese American Vincent Chin received racially charged comments before his death.
he attack was considered by many a hate crime, but pre-dated hate crime laws in the United States. Nevertheless, during a 1998 House of Representatives hearing on the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1997, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. suggested that the problem in making people sufficiently aware of the causes for and injustices of the Vincent Chin case was that it was a political “hot potato” that did not get picked up for “political reasons” with respect to the automobile industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Vincent_Chin
This won’t be a popular post here, but when you have big corporations you invariably will have large unions. Unions started in United States over wages and working conditions. For anyone interested read about working conditions in the coal mines in Appalachia in the last century and in the the textile mills with child labor. Are some Unions corrupt - you betya, However, the nurses need a good union right now because they are arbitrarily scheduled on shifts, and many of the factories overseas that produce materials for US companies need some good unions.IMHO
This won’t be a popular post here, but when you have big corporations you invariably will have large unions. Unions started in United States over wages and working conditions. For anyone interested read about working conditions in the coal mines in Appalachia in the last century and in the the textile mills with child labor. Are some Unions corrupt - you betya, However, the nurses need a good union right now because they are arbitrarily scheduled on shifts, and many of the factories overseas that produce materials for US companies need some good unions.IMHO
I wonder how the union cowards are going to fare when their prey shoots back?
The $821 billion stimulus bill gave almost 70% to union workers. Those workers paid dues to their unions who then sent that money to the Democrat Party. In effect, the stimulus bill ended up in the treasury of the Democrat Party and Democrat candidates. This is our tax money and the tax money of future generations at work.
Right to work in Michigan is a devastating blow to the democrats. Michigan unions send some $250 million to democrat campaigns every year.
I predict that as the unions shrink, they’ll try to squeeze more money out of members causing even more to jump ship.
That may be true. The unions, if they want to stay relevent, need to start providing a quality product in order to entice people to join and spend money on dues. simple as that.
“many of the factories overseas that produce materials for US companies need some good unions.”
OK, I’ll bite. Your recommendation would be the kiss of death for said overseas manufacturer. Many overseas suppliers for US companies either replaced domestic suppliers, or had to relocate overseas from the US because our unions had made them uncompetitive.
Getting those unions under control is becoming a matter of financial survival, and if the private sector unions are going to be the union muscle in that fight then we either take them down too, or we get bled dry.
I’ve often wondered if any commercial airliners have been sabotaged by union types.
I know union members have sabotaged jet engines that were then sent to be tested at Arnold AFB in TN. Someone had inserted bolts and metal debris and in one case, even a claw hammer, among the vanes inside the engines during their manufacture back in the late 80s or early 90s. Needless to say jet engines don’t injest that kind of thing very well and th results were messy and expensive.
The advent of unionism coincided with the recent end of the civil war. Newly freed blacks traveled north to try to seek employment in friendlier surroundings. Bargaining with the only skill they had - a willingness to do hard physical labor at bargain rates, their presence threatened the employment of white laborers. Unions formed to protect the pay of white workers in Philadelphia and New York. The unions, of course, excluded blacks.
The labor movement and its members have long suffered from extortion, thievery, and fraud. The history of the Mafia's association with the unions is given in the following book:
The unions are not our friends. They do not serve their member's best interests. The sooner the union members realize they are tools in a money laundering enterprise, the sooner this dinosaur of corruption will see its demise.
The great thing public sector unions have going, of course, is that they get to elect their bosses, the people who give out their paychecks. Then they get to donate some of that back to re-elect the bosses so they can give them raises.
It’s a never-ending circle of corruption.
Soooo,
Why haven’t RICO laws been used to put these criminals in jail???
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