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?
I’ve often wondered if any commercial airliners have been sabotaged by union types.
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 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???
We can starve the democratic virus by creating more right to work states.
I for one am pushing for Alaska to fall into line, though Alaska is predominately republican they do have unions.
I remember when I first moved to Alaska, almost impossible to get a decent job because of the unions. So I took on lesser paid jobs for years to get any decent wage.
basically the unions restrict hirings for favoritism, cronyism or party affiliations.