The Worth of Public Employee Unions

Oregon Catalyst ^ | Jan. 4, 2017 | Larry Huss

[Twotone]

What is the worth of a public employees union?

Well not much these days according to the actions of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU announced last week that its members must be prepared for a thirty percent (30%) budget reduction including an immediate ten- percent (10%) reduction in 2017. Of course the SEIU union bosses blamed it all on President-elect Donald Trump but there is really more to it than that.

Private sector union membership has been on the decline for decades. It is the result of a combination of things – mechanization, international trade agreements, and a migration of workers rights from union contracts to government regulations. To some degree, as unions became political forces, they began to push for legislation governing employee rights (work and safety conditions, overtime, compensation, benefits, discipline, etc.) As they did so, workers began to assume that it was “government” rather than the “unions” that protected them. All of these forces combined began to make unions less relevant to workers. The rise of state determined right to work laws added to the decline by eliminating the ability of unions to make membership and financial contributions mandatory as a condition of receiving or maintaining employment. In return the private sector unions doubled down on their political activities and became recognized more as an arm of the Democrat Party than as a vehicle for workers rights.

From 1973 to 2015 the percentage of private sector workers belonging to a union declined from 24.2 percent to 6.7 percent. That represents a decline in member numbers from slightly over 14 Million to about 6.7 Million even while the total private sector workforce was expanding by nearly double. And none of this occurred after the election of Mr. Trump.

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LEECH

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The Worth of Public Employee Unions

They serve one primary purpose - to keep the RAT money laundering machine running smoothly with dues which go to the RAT party and come back around as bennys to the "servants". The secondary benefit is they get the ability to brainwash entire generations of little skulls full of mush.

[i_robot73]

Let’s see: The ‘employees’ and the ‘employer’, whom also acts as the liaison for the ‘payor’, hash-out how much of the 3rd-party ‘payor’ must pay/hr., while STILL allowing the ‘employees’ to donate time\material\$ to re-elect the ‘employer’. Rinse, rather, repeat.

Nope. Nothing to see there. Seems on the up-n-up to me

[UnwashedPeasant]

Tax them into oblivion.

Try them for RICO crimes.