I have personally busted picket lines with over 150 pickets trying to stop a concrete slab placement.
I have been an officer in a hundred year old company busting out of five trade jurisdiction contracts. But I have also served as an industry rep on union pension fund boards.
My dad had a bomb go off just as he was going to open his office door when I was ten.
There is nothing I don’t know first hand about construction unions. Both working with them and against them.
Most of the members are our countrymen. Sure there is the marxist organizer and BA crowd but a lot of them helped elect Reagan and if we show them common courtesy and a honest shake they will stand with us because they are largely honest journeymen at their craft and have commonsense.
We don’t like it when we are tarred with a brush of robber baron or race supremitist when there are a few like that wearing our school colors. They shouldn’t have to bear each and every wrong for all of union criminality.
Leftist ideology is the cancer not our countrymen exposed to it, blighted by it or raised within it.
They shouldn’t have to bear each and every wrong for all of union criminality. ...... We don’t like it when we are tarred with a brush of robber baron or race supremitist when there are a few like that wearing our school colors. ...
Sorry, but we disagree.
While you are trying to trivialize the criminal enterprises, your apologetics don't rise to a truth. Unions are antithetical to individual initiative. "All for one", and "one for all", is not a "conservative" position. There is no such thing as a level playing field. there are just rules imposed to stifle competition.
Your experience on both sides doesn't justify their existence. Knowing "first-hand" about construction unions should reveal that to you. I have been an employer most of my life. I reward achievers.
Most of the people within our borders are our "countrymen", and they aren't a group. The Constitution does not give us group rights, it explains our individual rights. It promises us an opportunity to achieve.
