Best test for a union in the private sector is to check the LM2 documents at the DOL and see how much the leadership is paid. Compare it to the revenue and expenses and membership dues. Check how much time paid people spend on politics and lobbying. It will tell the story.
As a kid, I worked for a union/open shop contractor for a number of summers in high school and college. I was studying civil engineering and was trained as a cement finisher by the union.
The training was good and as I advanced, I got paid more $$$.
The plasterer's and cement finisher's union hall was a place you went on Thursday nights for 3 hours to learn a trade and drink a beer and hang out with men who made their livings with their muscles. Hardworking, honest guys who were master craftsmen at their trade.
The parish priest got me the job and the business agent for the union went to the same church.
It was a good setup.
The problem with public employee unions is they are working for the politicians who set the policies and approve the contracts in return for which the management donates vast monies and details workers for the benefit of the politicians who are all Dems.
It is an unholy, but perfectly understandable alliance.
The trade unions became so big and drove so much money in union dues that they became personally corrupt. Again, they gave to the Dems and the Dems protected them.
The recent John Deere negotiations are an eye opener. Deere is doing well. The unions had gotten squeezed for about 20 years and they all got right with a new contract.
Naive in the extreme. Unions are all run by gangsters. Unions are all rackets run to line the pockets of union bosses. They have loads of ways of screwing workers out of pensions and retirement benefits.
Best test for a union in the private sector is to check the LM2 documents at the DOL and see how much the leadership is paid. Compare it to the revenue and expenses and membership dues. Check how much time paid people spend on politics and lobbying. It will tell the story.
As a kid, I worked for a union/open shop contractor for a number of summers in high school and college. I was studying civil engineering and was trained as a cement finisher by the union.
The training was good and as I advanced, I got paid more $$$.
The plasterer's and cement finisher's union hall was a place you went on Thursday nights for 3 hours to learn a trade and drink a beer and hang out with men who made their livings with their muscles. Hardworking, honest guys who were master craftsmen at their trade.
The parish priest got me the job and the business agent for the union went to the same church.
It was a good setup.
The problem with public employee unions is they are working for the politicians who set the policies and approve the contracts in return for which the management donates vast monies and details workers for the benefit of the politicians who are all Dems.
It is an unholy, but perfectly understandable alliance.
The trade unions became so big and drove so much money in union dues that they became personally corrupt. Again, they gave to the Dems and the Dems protected them.
The recent John Deere negotiations are an eye opener. Deere is doing well. The unions had gotten squeezed for about 20 years and they all got right with a new contract.
Here is the Deere story of a "win-win" solution.
https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-power-shift-workers-of-the-world-unite-inflation/
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www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Naive in the extreme. Unions are all run by gangsters. Unions are all rackets run to line the pockets of union bosses. They have loads of ways of screwing workers out of pensions and retirement benefits.