Comments on: Agitate, America!: ‘Right-to-work’ takes aim at unions

By: Tracy Sorensen

Tracy Sorensen — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:01:23 +0000

The man who said to get our heads out of the sand is a Baboon. Jobs have left the country for years now, the unions didn’t start that. An Equal employment government & the new CEO corparate greed is most of the reason. The constitution says were created equal, which is true, but at age 2 that ends. Our parents, relatives, teachers, government, & employers start teaching what they think is right. Plus our own personality comes out. From that time forward no one really thinks they’re equal to their nieghbors. Some of us get to know their nieghbors & find out their ok, most today don’t. I always was taught to work with a very good work ethic, I worked myself to be were my equal was, which we all decide. This “bulls__t” about opportunity, I worked starting in 1965 at 10. I worked with Americans that were of Mexican, African, & other ancestory. We use to have to start at the bottom. Today were so equal most what to start at the middle. Now we let Illegal Aliens start there that come from countries that never had our values, morasls, or work ethics. Our work goes there for many years now, becaus ethey can fire someone who doesn’t or can’t do the job, & pay them dirt so they make more money.
Before you dismiss unions, look at history before they started. 7 day work weeks, 12-16 hour days, legal child slavery, no overtime, business owner’s making safety rules, no days off, most were given Sunday, because the owner usually was religious, no breaks, short lunch at your work station, maybe vacation (most none), no minimiun wage, & the right to fire anyone for any reason. If you stayed 50 years you may get a gold watch, most didn’t.
I would pull your head out of the sand but it isn’t even there, it’s in a darker place that I don’t even want to go to. We owe unions 40 hour 5 day work weeks, decent break & lunch times, child labor laws, vacation time, sick days, pensions & retirement packages, safer working conditions, overtime, miniumin wages, & a better quality of life. What’s even sad is that most people that were never in a union, reciebved similar things from union negotiations, especailly mangement. “Oh” remember negotiations, companies start by offering next to nothing. I was a required member of my union & didn’t agree with everything they wanted, but I had a vote on my officials ever election. Like most people with their heads in some hole, you only look at what you want to see & make comments with any knowledge or common sense. That’s what they want to do, so keep your head there. So we an all be were your at.
By the way look at right to work when you look at welfare. Look at Illegal Aliens, our own people are capable to cut grass, trim bushes, shovel & plow snow, wash dishes, bus tables, & do anything that they do. Why would you, when you make more by sitting on your “A__”? We need the right to work our way from the bottom & work to were our equal is, that’s where you start.
One more thing to think about, why do politicians act like their in a union. They get much more then us, any union offical, & get much from corprations.

By: nobama4me

nobama4me — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:57:06 +0000

Unions helped all workers get better pay, benefits, and working conditions, 80 years go. Now they just protect the lazy. They make things cost more than they should. I get sick of seeing the “rat squad” picketing construction jobs where the owner chose lower cost, more efficient non-union workers.

By: James C. Davis

James C. Davis — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:34:38 +0000

Ms. Churchill
Below is an article from AP. What is obama doing to help those teachers,firefighters, & public employees? FOOD STAMPS, 99 WEEKS UNEMPLOYMENT? WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?
Do you think the teachers would work without the union taking their money so they could have a job?

“WASHINGTON (AP) — Union membership plummeted
last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had difficulty organizing new members in the private sector despite signs of an improving economy.

Overall membership fell by about 400,000 workers to 14.4 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than half the loss, about 234,000, came from government workers including teachers, firefighters and public administrators.”

By: James C. Davis

James C. Davis — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:16:58 +0000

Right on John.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:27:23 +0000

I’ve been a hard worker for over 40 years, have never held a Union job and have always been treated right. Now the job I am at is being harrassed by Union Workers. Our delivery trucks are followed and we are harrassed at our customers job sites. In turn it is costing us business. The customer chooses to buy from us, non-union, to keep cost down so they can afford to pay their union workers. These parasites that are following us to job sites are just that, parasites. They need to be squished like a bug and put out of business. I do not wish harm to any human being, I only wish each human would hold in there mind “how would I feel if someone was intentionally making my life hell like I am doing right now”. The union workers we are having to deal with are going to hell for the pain & suffering they are causing several people in our jobs. Unfortunately they will have to die in order to reap what is coming to them. God is not on their side.

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:21:47 +0000

You should pull your head out of the progressive sand. Daydream all you want, jobs are leaving the U.S., not coming here. The reason is that given the right equipment, people in the third world can produce products every bit as good as those produced here, except for one third of the cost.

Unions have priced American workers out of the market. Union teachers have helped us drop to 17th educationally.

Interesting that around 60% of unionized teachers in Wisconsin dropped out of the union after Scott Walker stood up to them.

Also interesting to note that Illinois continues to plummet towards failue thanks to our leaders refusal to tand up to the unions and fix our pension system.

Union are dying in the United States. Their last gasp is trying to unionize Government Workers and food service people….the people most easily replaced.