Posted on 02/05/2017 2:00:12 PM PST by mdittmar
I spent 36 years working at the Bridgestone Tire plant in Oklahoma City. The work was hard but rewarding. It afforded me the opportunity to provide for my family, always ensure there was enough food at the table and that my kids were afforded every modest opportunity to grow up in a household that was stable, secure and free from worry. That all changed suddenly in 2006, five years after Oklahoma passed a so-called "right to work" law that was billed by politicians as a job creator. For the 1,400 men and women who worked at the plant, right to work didn’t work as advertised. Not only did the plant close, but the effects of the closing and the chilling effect that right to work has on a state’s economy were felt by everyone.
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Fake Sob Story.
If the union spent all the money for the benefit of the employee it would be a completely different matter.
But we know exactly where a lot of the dues go.
As foretold in the byline.
Listen up dumbass (stabs chest with finger), these are not the droids your looking for. Get it.
Now, I suggest you shut up and vote Democrat.
By the way Bill, how’s Helen and the kids? Wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to them.
Unions are a monopoly and should be broken up.
After decades of trying to get Right To Work past the unions here in Missouri we’re about to get it through the legislature. A Super Majority in the state congress and a Republican governor (kinda) guarantees it.
After Michigan went right-to-work, wages increased.
All typical pro-union BS.
Any time you see the phrase “chilling effect”, you know the entire article is BS.
Hard to overcome stupidity.
Just another heartwarming story from the folks who brought you "Look For The Union Label".
More union propaganda. Unions, in and of themselves, are neither good nor bad. Organizing the working people to protect themselves from what may otherwise be little more than a form of serfdom, forced upon individuals by a cruel and miserly employer, who knows that there is NO other place to find any kind of gainful employment, would appear to make some kind of sense.
In a closed society, there may not be any other opportunities. But in an open society, with incentives being rewarded to those who would take risks to provide goods or services that are in demand, and accept success or failure based on the market, the basis for employment expands oar contracts according to the size (or lack of) that demand.
Labor is fungible. It must adapt to what may be shifting skill sets over time, and some skills are simply no longer needed, while other skills are held in such demand that wage negotiations are meaningless. Here is where union negotiations fail - they try to protect jobs that have no longer any application in the work place. As such, the “negotiations” are more to protect some number of paychecks regardless of the productivity of the individual employee, essentially a form of welfare, and depending on the previous accumulation of wealth by the interests that provide the employment, may or may not continue for a period of time. Sooner or later, if the employee is not producing enough in goods or services to cover the cost of maintaining his described job, the job is going to be eliminated, and the individual is discharged, by firing, voluntary quit, or some form of retirement, and no replacement is ever hired.
Root, hog, or die. A hard truth, but one that ruthlessly keeps asserting itself in hard times.
And hard times are the most common lot of all mankind since the beginning of time.
“Right to Work Is Wrong for Your Family”
It doesn’t get more nonsensical than that, AFL-CIO!
Unions, so good for workers they have to be forced to join.
ONE day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,—nothing.
ALL RTW does is bar unions from requiring employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment.
That’s it, unions can’t force you to pay dues.
Back in 2010 I was installing fiber-optic cable in a very large mid-western tire plant. While using the “facilities” I noticed the following written on the wall of the stall:
“When are we going to Strike this year? Let’s make it during deer season so I can get some hunting done.”
Yep, Unions are great!
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There should be more exhortation to being an entrepreneur. A job should be a temporary thing until you find something you can turn into a business.
At 55 years of age, I'm just now coming around to that reality. After 30 plus years of engaging in physical labor in 105 degree heat in the summer and cold, driving rain in the winter, I find myself thinking about what kind of business I can start instead of what kind of job I can find that won't destroy what's left of my body.
When I go into a Wally World or Sam's Club and see some old geezer handing out flyers or drive up to the Burger King window and there's some blue-hair taking my money and handing me my food, I can't help but think to myself, "Wow, is that what my future holds?"
At this point, the depressing answer is, "Yes."
(sigh) I need a beer. And a whiskey chaser.
Be right back. I'm heading out to Wally World for some beer and whiskey.
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