Fake Sob Story.
As foretold in the byline.
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.
Over the past twenty years, it’s been fascinating to track the growth—yes, growth—of the U.S. auto industry. While American manufacturers have been forced to slash jobs due to bloated union contracts and inept management, foreign makers have opened dozens of plants in right-to-work states like Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina.
None of those plants are unionized, and the vast majority of workers have no desire to join the UAW. They turn out a superior product; earn excellent wages and enjoy a full benefits package. And to my knowledge, none of them are facing potential layoffs. Not long ago, the union thugs spent millions trying to get Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga to join the UAW. Once again, the union was voted down.
The Union is your friend. Until it isn’t.
Thuggery and coercion always improve SOMEBODY’S life.
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Total bullshit!
Right to work is just common sense.
Fake news foe sure.
I worked in Tulsa for years back then, a non-union shop. Right across from us was a Union Shop in which you had to go to the union hall to get hired in.
We did not make quite as much but we were OK. The union shop was on strike several times a year while we were working. Then they closed down permanently years before the Open Shop laws went into effect.
Quite a few times the Union sent “ringers” to get hired on in our shop. Once hired they began to talk Pro-Union and got fired. Then the Union would sue claiming they were fired for being pro-Union. in reality they were fired because their “ringers” were the laziest bunch of people I have ever seen.
My memories are that Oklahoma was always a Union Shop state. Back around 1964 an attempt was made to make it an Open shop state, even showing Cecil B DeMille anti union advertisements every Saturday night. It failed. Oklahoma remained Closed Union Shop until a few years back when those closed shop rules were thrown out.
Unions have done great things for our country. Our wages went up. Remember when you were earning about $1+ an hour, those days are gone, you now can get a Union job that pays $15+ an hour. Seem Unions helped you increase your salary. When you earned $1+ an hour that $1 bought you 2 hamburgers, french fries and a shake and you got 15 cents change. Unions help you so much that the same meal today only costs you $4+. How about cars? New cars back then $1800, but today they are only $22,000. Yup Unions have done wonders for us all. Tony bent nose thanks you for joining his union.
To say something against unionism was unthinkable.
Then where I worked for many years changed all of that. The union leadership was always led by thugs and hoodlums. They cheated, manipulated and extorted for their own purposes but the 'rank and file' never kicked them out...go figure.
That’s kind of the point, isn’t it? If the union adds cost without adding value your business is at a competitive disadvantage with non-union businesses.
Its official now! Governor Greitens of Missouri just signed the Right to Work Law as he promised. Missouri now 28th State to be RTW. Now on to New Hampshire -hearings on Wednesday. Washington State as well. Although chances slim in WA.