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2009-09-08 Home Front: Politix

On Labor Day, support for unions plunges to all-time low

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Amazingly undemocratic organization especially in light of the last lines of the article.

Has anyone ever considered RFK when as chief counsel of the 195759 Senate Labor Rackets Committee having taken on the organization in late 50's received a payback from the organization in 1968

Posted by Gleans Sproing2705 2009-09-08 05:24|| 2009-09-08 05:24|| Front Page Top

#2 If you can't beat them, buy them.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-09-08 06:52|| 2009-09-08 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I do think Orwell could be given lessons on Newspeak from today's American left.

Posted by ed 2009-09-08 06:54|| 2009-09-08 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 There was a time we needed unions. Now they are just political thugs that steal from their members.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-09-08 09:33|| 2009-09-08 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 A hundred years ago, the unions did heroic and valuable work, calling attention to appalling working conditions, child labor, and other horrors. At the same time, there were crooks and political activists using the unions for their own purposes.

With laws in place to protect workers, the unions became all about power and politics. Also, some organizations, having won their battles, don't know how to say, "We've reached our goals, now we can go home." Instead, they use the same rhetoric to justify all sorts of lesser goals. Like Jesse Jackson.

The comments from the original article note that the union activists attacking people at town hall and tea party meetings probably has a lot to do with the latest decline in people's view of unions.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-09-08 09:38|| 2009-09-08 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Unions serve a purpose - they provide a defense against management excesses. And without organized labor you can be sure there will be management 'excesses.'
However, it seems labors own union management rapidly evolves to exhibit its own 'management excesses' to the detriment of the workers themselves. And it is union management (and not labor) which is responsible for donating to various political entities and thus is the actual beneficiary of most labor legislation.
The best situation for the workers seems to be the 'threat' of unionization, without actually unionizing.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-09-08 09:49|| 2009-09-08 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Unions are a 19th century solution to a 19th century problem.

Posted by Iblis 2009-09-08 12:32|| 2009-09-08 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Why do there need to be unions in the government sector? Government is not a sector prone to management excesses and there are certainly enough avenues to redress grievances should such excesses occur. Government unions are nothing but shake-down artists and the person being shaken is the tax payer.

Posted by remoteman 2009-09-08 23:37|| 2009-09-08 23:37|| Front Page Top

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