Re: Another Reason I Hate Unions
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tucker301</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Unions like any other organization, can be breeding grounds for corruption.
All of the ingredients are there. Money, power, influence, and little to no regulation.
Sound familiar?
That being said, they have served this country well for a number of years, and they did give people the power and the courage to right some significant wrongs in the way corporate America treats the hard-working people that keep the country moving ahead.
Unions laid the groundwork for new laws that protect workers from abuses by their employers.</div></div>
I agree but believe they have long outlived their usefulness. Norma Rae retired with her fat union pension years ago.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tucker301</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I don't know what would happen to these laws if labor unions were to go away completely, but I suspect the same seeds that bred corruption in the unions would find their way into the fertile grounds of the newly empowered corporations.
There is a balance maintained by organized labor in this country. Without it, there would be an uncontrolled shift of power in the other direction.
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Answer a question for me concerning the "vacuum" left for the common worker by the absence of union labor. Why is it that in right to work states, especially here in the south, workers are treated fairly and equitably yet union membership down here is rare to non-existent? I don't see over exploitation of the workers by "the man".
Here's an example of one of the largest automakers in the world with a non-union plant being very successful. I don't see any exploitation here unless by exploitation you mean making a profit while the big three are sucking at the taxpayers tit.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081204085242.aspx