Unions are their own can of worms.
Embezzlement is endemic.
Bribery, racketeering, and collusion with organized crime by union officials is way too common as well.
Unions have been caught out using "card check" drives where union organizers harass workers at home, threaten families, or pressure employees to sign authorization cards publicly rather than through a private secret ballot.
Not to mention protecting that unproductive slug that's good at politics.
The corporation is treating us badly and is working against us in politics.
So we'll create a corporation we pay to represent us in contract negotiations that starts out well and eventually treats us badly, works with organized crime, and works against us in politics.
Unions now support politicians that vote for laws and treaties that offshore our jobs and push amnesty for illegally imported labor to undercut our wages & compete with us for housing.
I fail to see the difference at this juncture.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
It's one of the scary truths that George Orwell tried to tell us in Animal Farm. Most people ignore it.
My grandfather was elected leadership of his Local of the IBEW in the 1950's through his retirement as a lineman in 1968. He was very disappointed in what became of his Union in the 70's & 80's.
I refuse to blindly support Unions just because they brought us favorable labor laws in the 1930's - 1950's. They've changed, and not for the better.
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