The worst years of my working life were the years I spent in the Teamsters union. That environment was straight up criminal.
Many problems could be solved by abolishing government unions.
Too bad, my heart bleeds. Federal workers should not be allowed to unionize. A union concerns itself with nothing more than control and money, a private adjunct to the government.
The focus should be on the unlawful public unions — the taxpayer is NOT represented.
Private sector unions may suck, but I generally don’t have a problem with them — providing no thuggery and graft.
People are just getting the word that they don’t have to pay, and tens of thousands drop out per month.
Oregon is proposing a law to force the State to pay the unions the equivalent of dues for every State employee, and to reduce their salaries proportionally.
It clearly violates the Supreme Court’s intent, and would create a perverse situation of the State paying for someone to oppose them - both sides in the so-called negotiations.
It makes it clearer that unions have become money laundering schemes of the Democratic Party, to skim from the Treasury.
Breaks my heart.
My dad was forced to join the Machinists Union when he got his first job in NYC , he told me that they basically held a gun to his head. No union membership, no job.
I can see some few, few times where such unions can help people. But those days ended a lomg long time ago. It just became another vector of greed and corruption, and showed countless times the union never cared about the workers, they just cared about the union.
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