Posted on 02/24/2018 2:58:19 PM PST by mdittmar
The effort to expand cynically named "right to work" laws says a lot about what is wrong with politics in our country. Disguised as protecting workers, the real goal is to silence workers’ voice, reduce our bargaining power and make our jobs more precarious. It’s about power—social, political and economic power.
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The phrase doesn’t refer to some right to a job, but the right to contract to supply or consume labor without compulsory unionization.
Other than the heading of “know thy enemy” why are we regularly treated to these union press releases? Their takes are highly predictable and uniformly anti-conservative. Why waste JimRob’s bandwidth?
I met Trumka once in Detroit. Every word regarding right to work laws was a lie.
I had to go to my hotel room and take a shower.
(circa 2000).
5.56mm
I was offered a ‘regulated’ job at the General Dynamics F-16 fighter factory in Fort Worth. Never regretted for a single moment saying ‘no.’
I’ll let JimRob decide that.
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AFL-CIO crime syndicate?
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the ACLU-CIO needs to get out of our government, city and county buildings.
The primary purpose of my job is to find and RETAIN good people! The myth that bosses are out to tyrannize good employees and look for ways to get them fired is utterly untrue. If you work for a company that does not feel that way, then you are working for the wrong company! When we have good employees, the company tends to do very well.
Now if you are a negative, complaining loudmouth who bangs in sick all the time, shows up late and has little or no pride in what you are doing, then you might want to consider working for a "union" type job where your "rights" are protected.
Place I used to work for had a lot of union workers who held a strike every decade or so. The goons would do things like drop bowling balls from the overpass onto cars in the parking lot. Guys you saw every working day turned into psychos during strikes. Means they were psychos the whole time.
You gotta understand, the AFL-CIO isn’t “about power—social, political and economic power.”
Or so they’d have you believe.
” Am I mistaken? All replies welcome and encouraged... “
Yes and no. It’s about the company making money while keeping the best trained and able to do the job. Those that do a great job get rewarded. Those that don’t go on probation and if it doesn’t change they get someone who can do the job. Benefits are usually the same.
Non-union labor will do the work better than union labor. They will receive more raises and bonuses for meeting production quotas. And they will do it with quality in mind, because the better job they do, the more money the company makes. There is a synergy there that doesn’t exist in a union shop.
5th MEB ~
I was also at one time SEIU [32B] in NYC & they took my money for nothing, for almost five years.
I got canned for being the only Irish American who could not bribe, nor speak in Español, whilst being surrounded by Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...
Racist, corrupt, turds. (IMO)
SamAdams76 ~ Excellent reply!
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/after-64-years-still-paying-the-price-for-taft-hartley/
“required that all union officials pledge that they were not communists. (This part of the law was ruled unconstitutional in 1965.)”
Those were the days, now communist party membership (Democrat) is mandatory.
No bargaining power is reduced by not having to pay your opposition for the “privilege” to work.
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SEIU is the American KGB.
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I met Trumka in the waiting room at a garage in Saint Albans WV where my car was being repaired in roughly 1982. He was making the rounds shaking the hands of people working there and in the waiting room. At the time I was home visiting my parents and was having some car trouble, hence the garage visit. Even though he was running for UMM Prez at the time he clearly had larger union ambitions.
editor-surveyor wrote:
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SEIU is the American KGB.
I see what you mean.
Pretty much textbook for the Left to accuse its opponents of what they themselves are doing.
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