Dictators

Have you read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? It's been years since I have. It convinced me that unions were necessary to provide unskilled workers with a voice. Businesses can abuse labor but now there are workplace laws and hiring laws.

Today I believe the powerful unions are breaking our backs. It's not the worker who has to join the union to have the job. It's the union bosses who have abused the pensions they have controlled for years.

Did we really bail out teacher jobs? Not really. We are bailing out the generous union pensions that have eaten up and abused by the unions.

Power corrupts. Unions are too powerful. There are schools where children can not erase the boards after class to help the teacher because that's a union job. There are workplaces where an employee can not rearrange her office because that's a union job. There are cities where no building can be erected without union workers.

And yet there are still states called "Right To Work" where union membership can not be a condition of employment. There are auto makers that are not unionized. There are small businesses that treat their valued employees quite well but are often targets of the mighty unions.

Are you in a union? Do you answer to the union or to the employer? Are you a team player but your team is the union?

'til later