On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:05:04 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 1/28/2021 3:58 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> My guess is that we're gonna need unions more than ever. We need them more because of the every widening rift between the haves and have-not. The greater the divide between the rich and the lower classes, the more you need for instruments of equalization. My wife likes to complain about her boss to me when she gets home every so often. Some of it is pretty egregious. I always say that she should go to her union - that's what they're around for. Mostly, workers just want to be respected, and not abused. Is that too much to ask for?
>>
>I've worked at companies that had unions. If it was 1930 there is a
>chance I'd be a union organizer as they were needed and helped the
>workers.
>
>Fast Forward to the 1960. The unions did not give a crap about the
>members but took good care of the union bosses. It became all about the
>dues and money contributed to the union run health and welfare benefits.
>
>I've watch workers walking the picked line in the rain and cold while
>the union boss pulls up in his Caddy to give them encouragement.
>Negotiations? Yeah, that was done at lunch and settled before the shop
>negotiating committee was selected and the charade started.
>
>Workers should be respected and not abused but a union is not going to
>fix that. The workers could if they really wanted to. And pay no dues.

Without unions, we go back to Dickensian times, to unbridled,
capitalism, to barbarism.