The pursuit of happiness requires the opportunity to take care of basic necessities and perhaps a little bit more. This can be accomplished only if there are opportunities to earn money. Anything which interferes with that opportunity is clearly a violation of our civil rights. Placing a condition of union membership between a worker and a job opportunity is a violation of that right.
Every person has an equal opportunity to apply for and obtain a job which is available and for which he is qualified. When unions buy political favors to obtain exclusive rights to the portals to jobs, they are buying the workers to sell to employers. That is what slave traders did. The only difference is that today's workers can choose to starve to be free.
Workers are perfectly capable of organising themselves within a company if real abuses are perceived. It is not necessary to pay union "leaders" tremendous salaries to talk to company officials. Unions have a history of criminal leaders who are accustomed to extorting businesses and this is just the same activity on a larger scale. Many times, if it becomes more profitable for the individual union official, a "sweetheart" arrangement exists between the company and union bosses. This is an arrangement where the union prevents strikes for a price.
Workers deserve a fair wage based upon his/her value in producing the product or service the company provides. The more productive a worker is, the less the cost to produce and the greater the profits to share as wages. Sure, employers are sometimes reluctant to share all the profits. If your contribution to earning those profits is significant, no employer will want to lose you.
It is doubtful that the unions are primarily interested in the welfare of the workers but are actually more concerned with their own little empires. Without having to pay union dues and any other assessments, every union worker would recieve a significant, immediate raise in his pay. It pays then to be as qualified as is possible, Education and training are the keys to good, permanent jobs.
As I mentioned somewhere before, my mother was a member of The International Ladies Garment Workers Union as a seamstress. That union, at the time, would not allow their office workers to unionize!!
Every person has an equal opportunity to apply for and obtain a job which is available and for which he is qualified. When unions buy political favors to obtain exclusive rights to the portals to jobs, they are buying the workers to sell to employers. That is what slave traders did. The only difference is that today's workers can choose to starve to be free.
Workers are perfectly capable of organising themselves within a company if real abuses are perceived. It is not necessary to pay union "leaders" tremendous salaries to talk to company officials. Unions have a history of criminal leaders who are accustomed to extorting businesses and this is just the same activity on a larger scale. Many times, if it becomes more profitable for the individual union official, a "sweetheart" arrangement exists between the company and union bosses. This is an arrangement where the union prevents strikes for a price.
Workers deserve a fair wage based upon his/her value in producing the product or service the company provides. The more productive a worker is, the less the cost to produce and the greater the profits to share as wages. Sure, employers are sometimes reluctant to share all the profits. If your contribution to earning those profits is significant, no employer will want to lose you.
It is doubtful that the unions are primarily interested in the welfare of the workers but are actually more concerned with their own little empires. Without having to pay union dues and any other assessments, every union worker would recieve a significant, immediate raise in his pay. It pays then to be as qualified as is possible, Education and training are the keys to good, permanent jobs.
As I mentioned somewhere before, my mother was a member of The International Ladies Garment Workers Union as a seamstress. That union, at the time, would not allow their office workers to unionize!!
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