Collective Bargaining with Themselves!
Here’s an idea: Let’s unionize all the lawyers; in fact, there no longer seems to be any reason why we shouldn’t make union membership mandatory and automatic for any American who wishes to work. We already have a physicians’ union and teachers’ unions. Nearly everyone employed by the cruel and oppressive American taxpayer has defensively joined a union. As a retiree, I don’t belong to a union, but I’m thinking of starting one so that I can guarantee my social Security and Medicare benefits against the possibility of some arbitrary change…like insolvency.
And, let’s face it; that’s what unionism has come to. Not wages and hours, break schedules and holidays – nope, it’s about guaranteed income for life. We’ve slowly moved from the employment fairness paradigm to the employee extortion paradigm. Which may be a little overstated, since in most cases, the employees are exploited worse by the unions than they ever could have been by the employers.
How did this happen? Where was the tipping point? States, counties and municipalities are going broke while still increasing employment, raising compensation and lavishing benefits for which there is no realistic funding. The result is an undeclared war on the taxpayer (the only source of funds).
Work for their Retirement
What’s worse, there no longer seems to be a distinguishable difference between the unions and the Democratic Party. Easy government classification of someone’s job as belonging to an existing union contract means any new elections are avoided and thousands of workers suddenly have a new payroll deduction and work rules. Mega-dollars find their way to the unions who, in their gratitude, pass some along to the politicians who were astute enough to have arranged the classification in the first place. This process helps to ensure incumbency for both the politicians and the union officials.
And that’s without card check, which would remove the pesky requirement for a secret ballot and guarantee arbitration when a contract is not approved. If passed by Congress, experts acknowledge it would be the Democrats’ payoff for the successful 2008 election. And for the future work in getting out the Democratic vote, keeping dissenters from disturbing Democrats meetings, and disrupting gatherings, such as the Tea Parties, to discourage the spread of any coherent opposition to Democrat Party rule.
So, whether it’s taxes to the government, or dues to the unions, we are seeing a decoupling of duty from collections. At some point, both seem to have realized that they could get paid for working for the general good while making certain to only work for whatever keeps them in the collections business.
Which brings us to:
FREQUENTLY UNASKED QUESTIONS
- Why should highly-trained white collar professionals belong to unions?
- Government employees work for those officials who are electorally answerable to us, the taxpayers. Why should they be allowed union membership?
- Why is it legal for you to be drafted into union membership without either your knowledge or consent, and dues deducted from your paycheck?
- Why should it be legal for a union to give your money to a political party you do not support?
- If it is illegal for a government employee to engage in political activity (such as canvassing a neighborhood for votes) as a condition of employment, why should that same person be allowed the same activity as a union member?
We look forward to your thoughtful comments.
interesting..