Posted on 04/16/2021 6:14:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats love unions because unions extort huge sums from union members and donate a major portion to democrats. IOW, to democrats, unions are a source of campaign donations.
In my experience.
Workers trust the unions less than management.
Which isn’t good
You know what would help working class families?
Not having to pay the taxes the Left imposes at every level of human activity to fund their welfare state.
With lower government imposed costs folks might even be able to get by on a single income.
Maybe it equation is more they don’t trust the guy saying their organization wants to be paid by them to function as a middle man between them and the boss even less?
Yep.
Unions are foundational for Progressivism going right back to the beginning when progressivism was born around 1900.
They’ll never give it up because they don’t know how. It’s like breathing. On this one, they can’t stop.
Ah, but that reduces the power of government and its army of bureaucrats.
“because unions extort huge sums from union members and donate a major portion to democrats”
That may be the key reason why unions are having a hard time winning representation elections.
Republicans are not going to join a union that is going to use their dues money to fund despicable Democratic politicians.
Commies/progressives who run unions for the benefit of the democrat party don’t represent ‘workers’ they represent white liberal ‘elites’...
Fixed it for the author. The last thing in the world unions care about is the welfare of the membership. It is a means to an end.
“Not having to pay the taxes the Left imposes at every level of human activity to fund their welfare state.”
If I could afford health insurance, I would be paying more in cross subsidization for unhealthy lifestyles than I would be paying in taxes.
In NYC, some people pay $3,000/month in rent so some other people can pay $400/month in rent, instead of $1,700/month equally.
Bosses are corporate management, who at least have some concept of pay for performance. Unions are government management...that guarantees workers will never make more than a negotiated maximum salary.
The teachers’ unions in particular are nothing but trouble. Even if we succeed in recalling Newsom here in CA we will need someone with the balls or ovaries to stand up to that monster. This being the People’s Republic of California I’m not betting the farm on that one.
Don’t read too much into this. Amazon greased Dem palms big time last election.
Yes. The States used their regulatory powers to socialize the insurance pools, requiring people to pay for coverage they would not usually need or even want.
It is the abuse of insurance, people using it as assurance, that broke our system. Obamaharm only doubled down on that abuse.
As for rents, heh, rent controls actually figured into the story of a Transformers novel I wrote a while back.
A character named Whiteface is trying to explain something from Cybertron’s history to the young Magnus, to protagonist. One megacycle is roughly 8 of our years.
“Magnus, do you realize that a great many Autobots never wanted to give up Quintesson rule? Shameful to admit it, but it’s true. There’s an incident in history called the Rents Riot that happened about a hundred megacycles after the revolution had succeeded. You see, after their initial success in Iacon, Primus and Alpha Trion lost the region back to the Quintessons and loyal troops. Because the economy had been drastically disrupted, the Quintessons instituted rent and price controls so loyalist wouldn’t end up homeless and destitute amid wartime inflation. After the war the loyalist still dominated Iacon, they still do, and while price controls were released they weren’t willing to give up their cheap rents. So as the city was rebuilt, the residents of the new towers had to make up the difference with even more expensive rents. Which were immediately fixed. Then more outrageous rents for those who came later. Eventually things REALLY boiled over and there was a full blown riot that lasted for nearly a stellar year.... Didn’t help anything that it was at just that moment in history that one lazy Autobot managed to enrage his Combaticon superior which resulted in one of the most egregious injustices ever ... and, sadly, another riot.”
Rent controls in NYC were from WW2 for the same reasons ... but they will never go away unlit forced to.
In my story Magnus already knew, though Whiteface didn’t, that rent controls still existed in Cybertron but there were confidentiality clauses in the leases for the luxurious places with cheep rents.
AKA “people leeching off of the citizens”
Progressivism started in the 19th century, not the 20th, and its roots are in people wanting a central government possessing general power in all circumstances whatsoever ... more like the failed 1st French Republic had.
Bolshies only believe in the money Unions can deliver.
The idiot kept on smoking pot - and drinking lots of tea as he heard it masked the MJ use. It didn't, and he was busted again ("I didn't think they'd test me again." DOH!) He was canned for good - the union said "You had your chance and blew it. We can't help you any more."
Other son is an engineer and says every time there is a negotiation, the company is aggressive, demanding 30% pay cuts and lessened days off when the union just wanted to keep the existing contract, despite inflation.
They appear to be one of the good ones. I was in two - Ladies Garment Workers and International Typographers - both fit the description of commenters here.
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