On 2021-04-28 5:49 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Â*Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yep. Unions were a good thing at first but they overstayed their use and
> became greedy.

So who is greedy now? The effing CEOs who have pushed zero-hours
contracts and gig working wherever possible.

They were responsible, years later, for putting American
> industries either out of business or sending them overseas.
>
There was a helluva lot of really bad management involved too.