Tallpine, that's fine - but unions have played a role in keeping wages up.
Can someone please explain to me how America is going to be more prosperous without these evil unions? All I see happening is wages and benefits go down. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't think of a single country in the world with a decent standard of living and weak or no unions.
Micro, America isn't either - racing to get rid of market protections for wage earners just makes people poor. You need to start with the welfare queens on wall street if you want America to become anything other than a third world country with millions of wretched poor.
I was working as a motorcycle messenger in SF,CA the unions declared that only cars/trucks can be commercial vehicles, then the unions fined me hundreds of dollars a day, then the unions towed my motorcycle
THEN i LIVED IN A FREAKING CAR The unions also taxed the multinationals so much they stopped doing business in San Francisco.
The messenger union in SF also got three goons in the company I had been in for 15 yrs and decided to strike - they were rotten snotty kids of 19/20 who had never been in a union & had no idea about rules and regs- they told me I was a freaking SCAB! the nerve of those dirtbags! I had been at the job when they were in the 3rd grade.
I tried explaining that a scab was a replacement worker not someone who liked his job, his employer , the CLIENTS and got hired to replace them when they strike.
The three dirtbags only got 3 or 4 other jerks to join them, the rest of the 25 workers were guys older than thirty with kids to feed, NO LIE!! the freaking "union" put up posters that we were "GAY SCABS"... they never ever tried to have any meetings with the overwhelming majority of employees just a few of their dumb pothead friends, they got their union organizing tactics from a COMIC BOOK! ...
Unions & their ilk have become nothing but a scheme for lazy wannabe commies and little hitlers.
the real goal of unions today is to end capitalism, end the Republic of the USA and usher in some strange fantasy about a workers paradise that would end up with them living in mansions while most of the rest of the world ends up in genocide.