Politics and Religion
unions take it in the ass
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This is not about union workers but big business and the GOP agenda.
I think the "asylum for refugees" plank must be what helped to get Dondi, the little Italian boy orphaned by WWII, into the US for adoption by his GI saviors. .
(IMO: labor unions did a LOT of good, going back to the 1800s and into the 20th century. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, things went INSANE with government and private industry caving in to outrageous union demands. For government officials, it was too easy to do anything to get re-elected: no new taxes AND no labor strike! Except they just passed the buck, more correctly millions and billions of bucks, to future generations in the form of debt and INSANE pension schemes. For the private sector, it was similar. There are essentially lifetime job guarantees in some of those old contracts; huge fixed pension and health benefits that put any normal 401k to shame. The "legacy cost" of those old contracts helped to kill the US auto industry that could not compete against foreign cars with but a fraction of those costs built into their sticker price. THAT, by the way, is why some big businesses support the idea of universal health care for all. If Big Business (from Heavy Industry to Wal-Marts) didn't have to provide health plans to employees, they could focus on other aspects of their business. (Yes, they would pay corporate, sales, real estate and other taxes and those taxes would help to provide health care for all, but they would no longer have to pay for corporate administration and all the other crap associated with corporate health plans. Basically, they are outsourcing their benefit plans to the government and getting to focus on BUSINESS, instead.)
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98643230
"Legacy costs now (2008) tack on an additional $3,000 to each American car that rolls off the assembly line, Hill says."
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Thank you for now proving your math is equally as bad as your reading comprehension. 
FINALLY someone stood up to the insanity of the anti-choice public unions. Can you imagine what the Left would do if they were forced to fund Republican candidates and causes??? That is EXACTLY what these unions do, in reverse. Another win for the First Amendment!
It isn't the same thing. .
I don't think workers should be forced to join the union representing others at that site or in that job. Usually, they aren't. (It's in the NLRB rules which I haven't read in their entirety.) And I don't think that those who choose not to join should be required to pay FULL union dues. However, they do reap the benefit of the collective bargaining agreements (and some other benefits) so I think that should be required to pay the fraction of the dues for services from which they benefit directly. (They get no strike or lockout benefits w/o paying into the fund. They get no other benefit w/o paying into the fund.)
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Of course, one could also argue that non-union members who choose not to pay the collective bargaining portion of the dues shall not be covered by the collective bargaining agreement and have to negotiate wages and benefits on their own with Management. If they can even get in to talk to Management.
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(I think that current NLRB rules require union pay for non-union workers doing the same job. Maybe the unions will sue to exclude non-members from that benefit.)
