Democrats aim to abolish
right-to-work laws

There's a no brainer candidate for veto.

I liken compulsory union membership to a prostitute's relationship with a pimp. The union takes some of your earnings and allows you to ply your trade and work in a particular location. Pay us or you can't work. The pimp says pay me part of your earnings and I'll allow you to ply your trade and work on this street corner. Pay me or don't work.

Given long time union membership declines the threat to muster their members to vote for or against anything has become rather a joke. Add in Trump's management of our economy and foreign trade negotiations and I'd be surprised if union members simply ignored union boss calls to pull the Dem lever in the voting booth next year.

Here's another item on the list of horrible things democrats will do if they ever get in power again.

Just ask yourself one question: Did the unions bring back all these blue collar jobs or did President Trump? Be honest.

I used to teach this stuff, and as a super-ager, as I am labeled by medical specialists - 80 plus years old, fully functioning brain - allow me to give a brief lecture. Until the Wagner Act was passed in 1935, workers had no protections - no minimum wage, no benefits, no fair dealing, no nothing. And when unionization was attempted in most settings, workers were abused, and sometimes, killed by their employer, (The Pinkerton detectives were Company thugs. Google Molly Maguires as an example.) Ford Motor Company assembled the weapons in quantites enough to arm a small country. The Wagner Act allowed closed shops - a condition where, to get a job, the applicant had to be a member of a union. That gave union leaders a way to control their members, workforce availability, and was a bad idea. There were other problems caused by the Wagner Act, including union jurisdiction disputes, which harmed the employer. When the Taft Hartley Act was passed after World War II, it did a number of things. High on the list of changes, it made closed shops illegal. Union shops were legal - where an employee, as a condition of CONTINUING employment, (usually at the end of the probationary period) had to begin paying union dues. The argument in favor of union shop was that the union, as exclusive bargaining representative for the workers, had to provide representation for all the workers, so all workers should pay for that representation. There was also a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a steelworkers case which created a union's 'duty of fair representation.' Taft-Hartley allowed a state to nullify section 14(b) of the law, making union shop contract language unenforceable. And the last time I looked, about 24 states had exercised their 14(b) rights. Our labor history in the U.S. is not glorious. Workers were treated horribly in many cases. If you were working in a factory, for example, and had your arm cut off, you probably would lose your job because a one armed person could not run the machine. And there was no worker compensation law to pay your medical bills. And if you sued ypur employer for the loss of your arm, the affirmative defense for the employer was either you were careless, so it's your own fault, or, you assumed the risk of the dangerous job, or, it was the fault of another worker. Unions, in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, lobbied for federal laws that sort of replaced their functions in worker protection. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is just one example. Therefore, it waS somewhat ironic that the unions, through lobbying, made their existence less important. Some of the cases I tried as a labor arbitrator showed me that management could be stupid and self serving. The unions protected those workers from management stupidity, by filing grievances. Those grievances wound up in arbitration, and that was the ultimate worker protection. Other cases I tried showed me that unions, and workers, could be stupid and self serving. How stupid and self serving could management be? One example - during a heat wave, summer, 1988, with the temperature inside the factory at 140 degrees, the plant manager fired an entire shift of workers who complained about the heat. I reinstated all of the workers, with full back pay and benefits. How stupid could a union be? I tried a case where the union president skipped over the recall list to improperly place his brother-in-law back to work. I ruled that the list had to be followed. The discussion about unions and worker rights is a complex one. This editorial trivializes the conversation.

The union money laundering machine must be protected at all costs. Why do they think that foreign investment has been so successful the past couple decades for the South? Companies don't want to deal with union interference in their business, and companies just want to work and create their product. But democrats are losing control and revenue harvested by the unions. That rebellion shall be punished. Wanna crash a roaring economy? Go through with this national suicide of ignorance and destruction. They really are such ignorants.

They also aim to abolish the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Well, of course they do. They want people enslaved by unions, and the unions flowing money to them.

Having been in a union, I know it from the inside. The benefits provided by the union in the early part of the last century were good for the time. The world, business, and government has all changed tremendously since then. The unions have become corrupt. The unions do not exist for workers any more, other than what they must do to control the members. You must pay to have a job. You must do as the union says. Buck the union and you will suffer sanctions, including violence. You have no control over your retirement funds. The union will support politicians you don't approve of, no matter what you say. The fact that the mob (Mafia) got control of the unions should be enough to convince anyone that it is about money and power. Thousands of workers paying union dues results in a big pot of money. Wonder why the democrats pander to the unions?

This is the democrats' counter to all of the improvements made by Donald Trump in growing a robust economy. Their playbook is decades old. Extort money from the productive, give it to the bottom feeders and tell people that the sharp pain in their butts is simply the price of "progress." It just makes you want to vote for the democrat candidate two or three times, doesn't it?

Thank you for that slice of history, #6. I had a grandfather who was electrocuted in a Pennsylvania coal mine in the early 20th century and it was pronounced his fault. His widow, my grandmother, received no compensation and was forced to pull her children out of school and put them to work after the eighth grade, my father was one of them. The unions later corrected problems like that but their abuses of power became worse than most company management. Unlimited power is never a good thing but a balance has never really been reached between the two parties. Unions have ruined the railroad industry, the steel industry and most recently the automobile industry. At this point in time management needs workers more than workers need a particular job so it's working out without unions. As I see it, the union removing the ability for workers to communicate directly with management is their worst fault. Most problems can be worked out without a strike assuming level heads and honesty.