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SCOTUS to unions, 8-1: You break it, you bought itI was once a member of a union. Fortunately I live in a r ight to work state and quit. Wasn't easy. I had a ten day window each year to quit. When I missed the window they let me quir but kept taking dues out of my paycheck for another year. I damn well hit the window the following year. In my opinion, they are nothing more than ongoing criminal enterprises. The leadership doesn't give an eff about the membership only what they can stuff in their pockets from the dues.
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Unions served a purpose back at the turn of the 20th century. Workers weren't treated much better than slaves.
As the Industrial revolution wound down (not that industry wound down, just that the disruption resulting from the transition from an agrarian to industrial society wound down as the new paradigm settled in) after WWII, the need for the protections offered by unions also started to wane.
They shifted from organizations designed to protect workers rights to organizations designed to protect themselves and their power. Of course almost from the beginning many were corrupt and beholden to criminal organizations (if not criminal organizations themselves) so they would not peacefully disband after determining "our job here is done".
The only workers that unions have protected in probably the past 60 years are the lazy, incompetent, unproductive ones.
Back in the late'80's my father worked at a factory that voted to go "closed shop". He had to either join the union or quit. After joining the union and being subjected to the union negotiated pay scale, both his salary decreased and his benefits got worse. He'd negotiated better terms for himself than the union did for their people...primarily because he was such a good worker and had established himself with the company as indispensable.
The ironic thing is that just a couple of years later, the union called for a strike over some contract dispute. The company had warned them that they flat couldn't stay profitable if they gave in to the union's demands.
The union went on strike. The company locked the doors. As soon as they found a suitable site (and IIRC it didn't take them very long), they trucked all the equipment to Florida and shuttered the plant permanently. The union didn't care about the workers having jobs, they only cared about not being seen to "give in" to the company. The factory never re-opened. It sat empty for close to 20 years before being torn down. I haven't been by there in many years, but I think the lot's still empty to this day.
It was a very common story in that part of the country (northern mid-west) at the time and even though the State my parents lived in is now a right to work state, it still hasn't fully recovered, as evidenced by the number of small towns with no industry at all that are barely hanging on.
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