Anyone suggesting there is no role for unions in America today might first consider a fact of history: more than a century ago, when oligarchs and the companies they owned had treated workers as if they were livestock, reduced to living in squalid pens with rationed food and water, it was unions that organized these workers to resist. It was unions who gave these workers back their humanity, and negotiated collective bargaining agreements and laws that eliminated child labor, enforced workplace safety, established an 8-hour work day, paid overtime, health benefits, and retirement pensions.
Unions today operate in a very different America. But how Big Labor has adapted calls into question their commitment to helping all American workers have a chance at a middle class lifestyle. In critical areas affecting everyone trying to thrive in 21st century America, unions have betrayed the American worker. In particular, their failure to challenge the globalist agenda of open borders and environmentalist extremism has inverted their priorities, putting them into alignment with the corporations and oligarchs they once so nobly opposed. This betrayal is most exemplified in the agenda of unions that didn’t exist a century ago, America’s powerful unions of government employees.
SeekingTheFacts 1 points 1.8 years ago
People are so lazy. It is not that hard to get involved in an union. Then you can get rid of the sellout union leaders. My union did exactly that! The union stewarts led a revolt and voted the sellout the fuck out. Its just like how our national leaders have gone so corrupt over time. No one gets involved! The people I know are so busy competing with their neighbors for the nicest house and polishing their cars. But do NOTHING for the common good. Join a union! Get involved!