So, illegal alien workers are the Ultimate Labor Day Hero? After all, they out-scab EVERYONE!
Scabbed 3 times.
Helped payed the mortgage and put food on the table.
Unions have too much power. Union violence is not prosecuted as it should be.
Learned some carpentry in a right to work state. Was obliged to move in a union dominated area, so I had to go talk to the union about being allowed to work. The deal was I signed up, paid my dues and it put me in line for when work started picking up again with no guarantee it would be anytime soon because I lacked seniority. Had no money to pay rent, pay for food, or pay for dues, so I had to change careers to one the unions did not own.
Jack London, syphilitic son of a whore, let’s worship the ground he soils upon./s
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. It is the source of Milton Friedman’s related discussion on the topic of the subtlety of capitalism in assembling resources to maximize utility. “Nobody knows how to make a pencil."
My father was a proud scab. He worked at GE for 38 years. Crossed the picket line one night and got the crap beat out of him by his so- called friends. But he said for being out of work for 6 months for a measly 10 cents an hour was plain stupid.He said they’d never make that up in wages. He had a family to feed. My father was a hero.
As a young boy, I sided with scabs: freedom of choice.
I was never a collectivist even when I was naive.
Twelve.
Do you have a problem with that?
When Union is on the label, unemployment is on the table.
Collective bargaining is the labor equivalent of price fixing. Suppliers can’t get away with price fixing, manufacturers can’t get away with price fixing, wholesalers can’t get away with price fixing, and neither can retailers. The only segment of the manufacturing chain that it’s legal in ...is labor. The only reason it’s legal for them is the 1935 Labor Relations Act, which specifically granted them the right to bargain collectively.
Until then collective bargaining was in violation of the Sherman Antitust Act. But since the NLRA was enacted after the Sherman Act, where those two conflict, the later enacted bill takes precendence. So the net effect of the NLRA was to exempt the practice of collective bargaining from anti-trust laws.
The NLRA, I might add, was passed during the Great Depression by two demoncrat-controlled houses of congress (with veto-proof majorities in both chambers) and signed by a demoncrat president (who also was America’s first Fascist Socialist president). It should be repealed so that unions also are subject to the same laws as every other aspect of business. Doing so would harelip Nancy Pelosilly, and that alone is reason enough to do it. Besides, labor unions are nothing more than small-scale socialism, and no free market is worthy of the name when one and only one link in the chain can engage in lawful price fixing.
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I scabbed at the deli in a striking Foodtown market for a couple of weeks while I was between jobs back in the 70s.
I was last out one evening except for the manager. There were only three cars in the parking lot; his, mine and one around the corner of the building. When I pulled out I noticed that the car around the corner started moving, with no lights on, and it began to follow me. I took a couple of turns I’d not normally take on the way home to confirm I was being followed, then instead of going home I drove to police headquarters. I parked and exited the car and “invited” the occupants of the tailing vehicle to stop. They took off.