DECLINE OF UNIONS IN AMERICA
The Trump economy.Jobs for America caused by the boost in workforce and a booming economy is cause for the decline in unions in America. No more union dues. More take home pay for workers. Who needs unions when we have a president like Donald Trump. Trump's speech in Orlando and the following he got proves America is behind him 100%.
Foreign auto makers in the US are all non union. The latest being Volkswagen in Tennessee. Who needs them? This is a trend. Bye bye union thugs. Nice knowin' ya.
Jobs flourishing. Unemployment lowest in years. No more need for unions.
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"If You Want To Work Here?"
"Then You Have To Pay Us Money"
"I Believe That It Was Wisconsin"
"That Gave The Unions The Boot"............................
Mr Ooby
"Stop Talkin About The Democrats".......................
So do I. They were a necessity from the Gilded Age and into early 20th century, to protect laborers from truly appalling and dangerous conditions. That's why we have a 40-hour work week now, instead of 60 hours previously. But the unions got greedy after WWII. One silly practice was "feather-bedding," which was to continue paying members for jobs that were obsolete. One of the glaring examples we heard all thru the '50s was the position of Fireman in the railroads. The fireman's job was to shovel coal from the tinder into the furnace of the locomotive, to boil water and make steam power. By 1958, only diesel locomotives were being manufactured, so what did a fireman do? Drink? Play cards? Tell jokes? Read comic-books? Who knows?
Lots of union jobs paid rather well. But rather than save money for inevitable bad times, too many workers bought into the status-seeking affluence game -- and lost.