My brother, a union man until death, used to work for the old Eastern Airlines- ‘member them? When they went on strike and shut the airline down, my brother was out of work for a year, lost his condo and had to work as a bartender until he could get back with another airline.
The entire time, he whined about how much the CEO was making and what a bastard he was, etc...
I asked him: did he know how much the head of the union made? How come the union wasn’t stepping in to help him keep his home? Why weren’t they trying to help him get another job? Did it bother him that, once they had shut the airline down, they walked off, smug and satisfied that they had shown another big company who was boss with their fat paychecks secure, thanks to their idiot members, and leaving so many people- including my brother- out of work?
Such questions made brother angry, and still DO. I just don’t get leftists and why they believe what they do. Are they just that stupid? (rhetorical)
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
- Mark Twain
It seems there are several camps in America. People the love their unions are in one camp. They got there by a good dose of socialist brainwashing. Perhaps that is a bit harsh. Let's call it indoctrination instead. Then there are people that simply love big business. That camp belongs to the ones that can conform, play politics and move up the corporate ladder. They buy into that latest business fads (whatever is being fed to them by corporate training). We can call that indoctrination too.
Then there are people like me. I am jaded about big business, big unions, big government and a lot of other things.
NO “required” union membership, etc.!! NEVER!!!
Also, stop the unions’ “leaders’ “ money machines, etc. to themselves!!
No in this case the Union was on the money and right to go out on strike. What Frank Lorenzo was doing was taking the assets of Eastern Airlines and giving them to Continental Airlines it was theft plain and simple within the airline industry Eastern Airlines was on the cutting edge of everything technology wise. One little thing that you might have missed Frank Lorenzo married into the Rockefeller Family so when he said that in a few years that the airline industry would have only 3 or 4 years he knew a lot more than we gave him credit for.
Any working man should have the right to join a union if he wishes, but only to the extent of making a similar decision NOT to join a union. A worker, in many cases, may need some legal representation, but too many unions are their for their own advantage, giving little thought for the workers they “represent”. That’s how I see it.