On 4/27/2021 9:26 PM, Dr. Bruce wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> On 4/27/2021 6:37 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>> He shit in the hat of organized labor. Unions aren't perfect by
>>> any reckoning, but they helped build a middle income economy, and
>>> balanced the power differential between the ownership and working
>>> classes, ushering in what is now another gilded age.
>>>>
>>> --Bryan
>>>
>>
>> True that organized labor was a big help to the working class and
>> improved wages, safety, working conditions. Unfortunately, some of
>> the unions became infested with criminals and went too far. There
>> were more interested in collecting dues.
>>
>> If I was born into the 1930s working class I'd be a union organizer
>> but when I hit the workforce I'd never join one and pay the thugs. I
>> had a front row seat dealing with them for about 17 years.
>
> Without unions, everybody who's not rich would be fu... fu... stuffed.
>

Yes, but their time has passed and the unions are as big a thief today
as the company was back then. They have steadily been losing ground.
I've been at the negotiating table.