Oh, by the way, thanks to the unions for getting 10 year old children out of the mines, for forcing bosses to supply medical insurance for their workers and driving all other wages up by with theirs, for making the big businesses share their profits with their workers, for protecting the rights of their members against ageism, injury firings and sexism and racism, for creating an economically powerful middle class that drove the country’s economy for decades until Reaganites began the long process of killing them off. Oh, yeah, you guys who hate them really should have been careful what you wished for. Soon there will be NO ONE to speak for you as workers and then you will learn the true nature of your “bosses.” Hint: it’s exactly the same as the evils you “see” in the unions.
If anyone thinks muscle is with management and not with the unions, please pay a visit to Philadelphia and learn the truth. On the other hand, I know that the trade unions in Philly did quite a bit and gave quite a large amount of donations after Hurricane Katrina. There’s good and bad with unions. They’ve helped the plight of the average worker immensely, but in a lot of cases they’ve bargained themselves right out of jobs.
People who hate unions are either 1) corporate stockholders, or 2) stupid. But if you like working 60 hour weeks with no benefits and no paid time off and unsafe working conditions then by all means continue to attack unions. You’ll be able to compete with sweatship workers in China because you’ll be working in the same conditions for the same pay.
People who blindly support unions are either stupid or stupid. Folks who dislike unions are open-minded enough to understand the value that unions once brought, but are also intelligent enough to see that unions have become no different than the corporations that blind union followers hate. An organization which forces you to join it to be employed, has short-sighted goals which in the long run are detrimental to its workers continued employment, and uses strong-arm tactics to coerce people into voting for a certain party over another is NOT in the best interest of its members, especially when the party they support has really done nothing to help the union rank and file membership, but rather is well practiced at the art of lip service. How has that “war on poverty” gone? More or fewer people below the poverty line?
comicgos over 13 years ago
NOT in wisconsin!
thirdguy over 13 years ago
Well, he can’t glad hand him, he doesn’t have any.
soundpreacher over 13 years ago
Is there a joke here? It sounds like normal union behavior.
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Oh, by the way, thanks to the unions for getting 10 year old children out of the mines, for forcing bosses to supply medical insurance for their workers and driving all other wages up by with theirs, for making the big businesses share their profits with their workers, for protecting the rights of their members against ageism, injury firings and sexism and racism, for creating an economically powerful middle class that drove the country’s economy for decades until Reaganites began the long process of killing them off. Oh, yeah, you guys who hate them really should have been careful what you wished for. Soon there will be NO ONE to speak for you as workers and then you will learn the true nature of your “bosses.” Hint: it’s exactly the same as the evils you “see” in the unions.
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
If anyone thinks muscle is with management and not with the unions, please pay a visit to Philadelphia and learn the truth. On the other hand, I know that the trade unions in Philly did quite a bit and gave quite a large amount of donations after Hurricane Katrina. There’s good and bad with unions. They’ve helped the plight of the average worker immensely, but in a lot of cases they’ve bargained themselves right out of jobs.
rfischer Premium Member over 13 years ago
People who hate unions are either 1) corporate stockholders, or 2) stupid. But if you like working 60 hour weeks with no benefits and no paid time off and unsafe working conditions then by all means continue to attack unions. You’ll be able to compete with sweatship workers in China because you’ll be working in the same conditions for the same pay.
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
People who blindly support unions are either stupid or stupid. Folks who dislike unions are open-minded enough to understand the value that unions once brought, but are also intelligent enough to see that unions have become no different than the corporations that blind union followers hate. An organization which forces you to join it to be employed, has short-sighted goals which in the long run are detrimental to its workers continued employment, and uses strong-arm tactics to coerce people into voting for a certain party over another is NOT in the best interest of its members, especially when the party they support has really done nothing to help the union rank and file membership, but rather is well practiced at the art of lip service. How has that “war on poverty” gone? More or fewer people below the poverty line?