The Fall of the Unions Paved the Way for Donald Trump

Posted by mminnick 7 years, 4 months ago to News
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Not so much the fall of the unions but the collapse of the Union grip on its members.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 4 months ago
    Need more right to work laws and we should eliminate "Public Unions".
    It's no fair that we pay these people more that we get paid for the same jobs in the open market.

    I'm tired of taking care of everyone else.
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    • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 4 months ago
      I completely agree on the public unions. Although, I actually tried being a civil servant, promised my wife I would give it 2 years, she had been a civil engineer for the state government for about 15 or 16 and retires in about 7 years. I lasted 22 months, I was paid basically half what I was used to making, the level of bullshit is unbelievable, the commonality of passive-aggressive jack-asses in public service is astounding, and "promotions" for doing a fantastic job are unheard of. You need to grow your fiefdom well beyond the needs of the mission just to have more people being managed, to qualify competitively for the next assignment you are interested in applying for. It was just stupid. Was happy to leave.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 4 months ago
    Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are four states where unions had death grips on politicians. Perhaps Scott Walker's defeat of the teachers' union in Wisconsin was more significant than anyone realized.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 4 months ago
    The non-prosecution of immigration laws and government meddling in virtually all areas of business helped lead to the decline of unions and the transfer of millions of jobs to less expensive regimes overseas.
    Government is not only the biggest enemy of free people, it is one of its own worst enemies.
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    • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago
      Agree. This helped the shift but the management of the unions is 99.99% in the pocket of the Democrat party whereas the rank and file of the union has been growing evermore disinclined to follow the "advice" of management as to how to vote and who to support over the last several decades. This year there was a clear break between the two, at least in the area I live.
      +1 on your comment
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 4 months ago
    The unions are made up of people. The people who happen to be union members voted for Trump regardless of their membership but because they were fed up with the current president and everything he represented. The also recognized that the republicans were acting in cohoots with the president. Therefore the only answer for them was to vote for someone who stuck his finger in their faces and told them things HAD to change. I hope that Trump can effectively start the change for us and do away with what the trailer park trash in the wh has done to us.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 4 months ago
    That makes a rather broad leap that the union members in places like Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin felt like they were adequately employed. Talk to a "union" coal miner in West Virginia about how that is working out for him.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 4 months ago
    Unions have obeyed the Peter Principle. Laurence J. Peter stated that people (Unions too, apparently) rise to the level of their incompetency. I remember as a kid admiring the union guys who "looked out for the working man." But the unions became the model for "Animal Farm." And something we never really seemed to learn was that everyone who brought home a paycheck was a working man or woman. Working at a desk or a lathe is still working. Plus, working people had better start upping their game since computers will be taking over that lathe.
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    • Posted by $ puzzlelady 7 years, 4 months ago
      More than that, organisms tend to grow and mutate like a cancer and exceed their original mission of protecting life to consuming it. Like locusts, they will consume and devastate their life support, to their own detriment. The unchecked hunger for ever more power leads to exploitation and abuse of those they ostensibly were meant to protect. We are now in the backlash stage, the turmoil of confrontation between collective and individual rights. Without objective ethical values these cycles will keep repeating bloodily.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 4 months ago
    When the last public sector union waves goodbye, I'll call that a good start to the restoration of freedom. We've still got a long ways to go before that, however.
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