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What are unions doing to help out?
asop
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Not a big fan and don't mean anything derogatory, just curious?
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Teamster members are delivering food and supplies. Union rail workers are still hauling freight every day. Longshoremen are still at work unloading trains and ships. Members of Police and Firefighter unions haven't left you completely without protection.
Should they all be doing more for you??
personally, I think that the unions were more needed early in the first half of the 20th century. Workers were being abused and taken advantage of. Collective bargaining has put an end to that.
I've never been union nor do I have a dog in this fight, but I’m also interested in what being a member TODAY gets you.
The workers are the union. It's called collective bargaining, look it up.
I was in a Union for 42 years, not by choice, Illinois is a not a right to work state, that statement in it’s self should tell you something. Over my 42 years in the union two of the union presidents were convicted of racketeering. The order of business for unions these days is, take care of the upper union officials first, politics second and then the works. I could elaborate more on what I witnessed but that would take forever and a day. Bottom line, if you don’t believe there is organized crime still in the unions, I know your still writing letters to Santa Claus.
I think tsavo is meaning that he’s proud of the people in the unions that work for a living, not so much the ones that take a nice percentage and return reductions on promises. I.E. Teamster retirement reductions and tax payer bailout - look it up!
The workers at Amazon in NY are going on strike Monday - believing that the facility is not kept clean and folks want to flee NY before it gets quarantined
Nurses and techs and staff at several hospitals have held walk out and demonstrated in front of the hospital and are threatening to strike.
It's largely a PPE issue though the union bosses are now suggesting their members receive hazardous duty pay and bonuses.
I understand the context and history of unions - unions have facilitated or demanded great beneficial changes.
But the union coin has two distinct sides.
Many modern unions are only concerned with bringing in more money for themselves rather than helping the rank and file.
And first responder unions avoid many of the criminal pitfalls - they are a horse of a different color.
Mike
I beg to differ, we never got a raise without a "contribution" AKA bribe. We didn't make the corrupt game but learned how to play it. Paybacks and bribes. Political insiders walk away with pensions almost as much as the Governors yearly salary of $175,000
But NJ IS the poster child of politicrap corruption.
The Unions are rallying around Joe Biden and loading democrat super-pacs with campaign finance money.