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Originally Posted by JUREK
RichieLion. Yes I have a very good job and I put in very long hours. I average about 70 hours a week. My choice and not forced OT.
What upsets me is I do go to a union meeting and ask for funds or to have a Republican come and talk at our meetings I am always denied. Yet two or three times a year a Liberal congressman who was under Federal Watch list with Murtha comes and we give him big bucks. They don't want to talk to anyone who doesn't toe the line.
I am thinking it was close to 10 years ago there was an unofficial poll and the membership was about 65% Liberal and 35% Conservative. I do wish our donations to the parties was split that way as well.
My company is 40% foreign owned and if I have a problem I go to our foreign partner and the problem is solved without using our union.
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Unions, understandably are not going to help or promote a political candidate that doesn't plan on helping the union with it's mission. The union needs easier organizing rules in the arena of the private job sector and legislators who advocate that non-union companies comply with the job safety regulations that the union demands of the unionized employer. In the private sector the union has to strive for a level playing field.
Of course, this doesn't really apply in the public sector. The public employee usually makes no commodity of financial value and his employer will not go out of business if it spends more than it produces. Virtually every public employee is "overhead". Therefore this worker doesn't live in the normal world of "supply and demand" and will not easily be coerced into giving back any portion of their compensation to balance a budget.
All the improvements in the private sector workers life, (such as the 8 hr. day, the 40 hr. week, paid vacation, overtime pay etc., etc.) which were hard won by worker unions are now regarded as entitlements and part of the fabric of life. People think they'll never go away and the day of the need for unions are long past. I guess we'll see, because the unions are in decline and soon employers will have little need to boost compensation so that their employees don't take the risk of organizing. Will the future of the worker be better because of this? We shall see.