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Originally posted by Superman
Done right, union leadership improves the entire industry and is a huge boon to employers.
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Done right. That's the qualifier. Do you think the UAW president is doing all he can to ensure that GM and Ford stabilize and have jobs to offer, while maintaining a living wage standard for the workers? I don't. I think they should look for compromise, regardless of whose fault it is for the company's woes. The union is the body that needs jobs, NOT the employer. If the union gave management breathing room, maybe they could fire the incompetent ones in management, redesign vehicles, and get their act together. We'll probably never find out until it's too late, though.
The "us-against-them" mentality that I've seen (as a union household member) encourages class warfare. That's entirely unproductive. Unions are there to mediate: to provide better conditions and high wages, while ensuring that there ARE jobs to be had; not sending them to other countries by being notoriously difficult to deal with or demanding too much.
I also like how union members strike out against dissidence or anything contrary to the party line. But yet they're "fighting to take America back."
If members in my dad's local knew who who we were and how I'm speaking out against his union, I'm sure he and I would suffer consequences for it. He buys the party line, though. Some of it is good, too much of it isn't.