I’ve noticed how strongly the Teamsters are in solidarity with their “brothers and sisters” in Canada. Telling, as if we needed more confirmation of what they are.
The labor movement is in very sad state.
The biggest problem is the conflict of interests between union bosses and union members.
Bosses want their plushy jobs, and often disregard rank and file real interests.
By now, the members figured it out, so they are dropping out of unions.
Labor is dead in this country. The Unions are in government.
If so, it’s a self-inflicted death.
For all practical purposes, Labor is in fact already dead.
Presently unions exist in the main at large corporations where the unions provide a structure upon which a wage and benefits programs can be developed in an orderly manner.
At GM, the UAW is actually in control, but the corporation is dying
Unions are almost extinct in the private sector. They remain popular in the government sector where not working hard is still a key perk.
Since 94% of the workforce is non union there is no real reason why the USA ( like the rest of the world ) put up real protectionist import tariffs. This would promote NON union employment! A win - win.
America’s workers no longer need union representation as they once did. Employers in the post-industrial era are smarter
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What most folks need these days, and have, is a good employment lawyer and the FLSA. Anything and everything an employee could want is contained in that act.
As for the unions, it’s too easy to see how they’ve been bought off.
Paul Hílal, Mantle Ridge and Hunter Harrison went about destroying CSX Transportation over the course of 3-4 years, just like they did the railroad companies in Canada. The RR unions neither said nothing nor did anything.
And I’m thinking the people aren’t as socialist and communist as Sanders and AOC want to pretend they are. Folks don’t have as much in common with the union agendas like they used to as the agendas have gotten more and more radical.
Good.
The unions won and are no longer necessary. The predatory excesses of the past have been made illegal.
At least with private sector unions I have the option of taking my business elsewhere.
Which robber barons are the public sector unions protecting the worker from now, we the taxpayer?
Public sector unions are parasitic organisms that continue to bleed us and make our tax burdens absurdly high. They are also funding the communist Democrat Party with your tax dollars, talk about insult to injury! And you don’t think about not paying, wage garnishment and property liens are the penalty you will pay for resisting.
Union leaders have historically set a bar for corruption that politicians have been trying to match for years.
Right. The unions held considerable sway over the nation's economic destiny at a time when the U.S. was the only major industrial power to operate freely without competition from countries that had been decimated by war in the first half of the 20th century.
As a result of this, the U.S. economy was a fascist system run for the benefit of that triumvirate of government, corporate management, and labor. The labor unions provided the votes to elect the government leaders, and the government leaders spent billions of dollars buying things from U.S. corporations at inflated non-competitive prices.
Just need to smash more faces and ppl will get in line.