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And the Unions will live on so long as they are needed to keep their members from being exploited by those that find it so much easier to threaten, intimidate and bully individual workers rather than all of the workers at once in the form of a representative who speak for them collectively and who cannot be threatened, intimidated, bullied, coerced and compromised with being fired, held back from being promoted, blackballed etc. etc.
Even with Uinons in place, Management will always have the upper hand in how their companies are run via Management Rights.
I certainly agree that excesses can be found where Union involvement is concerned, yet the same can be said about Management also.
I see in these forums so much ignorant and baseless inflammatory talk about how unions are destroying the Nation, etc. What I never see is knowledgeable and reasoned commentary from most of the righties in this forum on this subject. None of the Union's detractors in this forum have shown any appreciable undertsanding or knowledge of the history of Unions and how, for example, they created and sustained the middle class as we know it.
So when I see these kinds of baseless rants that always seem to come directly from FOX talking heads, Limbaugh fanboi's and Rove's Ministry of Propaganda I automatically tune this noise out and look for substance from those critical of unions.....and never find it.
Ironic how, under Bush's leadership, the country took an an economic nose dive while the country's very rich got so much richer, and are still on the same greased track. And now that we're over two years into this mess that occurred under the repub's watch, they now use this debacle that they created to attack those that have suffered the most from their policies and are specifically keyng in on those entities whose purpose is to protect those who were most affected by the repub's favored treatment of the very rich.
Problem with all your text is that what we are talking about in Wisconsin are not companies and their employees rather it is public sector employees and their unions. If you can't see how that ends up being a road to fiscal disaster you are wearing a great set of blinders. The only thing a public sector union has in common with a run of the mill union like the UAW is the word union.
