OK, below are a couple of links to some stories about unions. I know people believe in the "union". Why, I have no idea but it seems in my 42 years on this earth one either loves them or hates them. Me, I hate them, with a passion.
You would not believe some of the replies and e-mails I get over this. The first link is about the Pillsbury plant in New Albany, IN. People need and "should" understand that after years and years of the unions bleeding a company dry, eventually they will move or go out of business. Unions raise the cost of EVERYTHING, lower production, and YES cost jobs. Unions had their place back in the day. You know, back before we had eight million government agencies to oversee and regulate how people can drink water.
1) People complain about how much the CEO/COO's etc... make. Here's a thought. Stop buying the product. If you are going to cry because the CEO of Delta makes X, then fly American. If the company doesn't make a profit, the board will rectify the situation. If you have a problem with how much money they all make, then become a CEO. That's the thing about America you can do what ever you want. You may have to go to school, you may have to start at the bottom, you may have to start your own gig. But to begrudge someone a living just because you think it's to much money is CHILDISH and not very Christian like.
2) No one complains about the UNION leadership making tons of cash off their backs. I mean just check out the UAW. Those guys have it made with that golf resort. They pull down hundreds of thousands off the back of their very own workers and nobody cares. The UAW needs more money, they raise dues. It seems to me that if the unions main concern is workers pay and they needed more money they would be working on raising the workers wage since they TAKE a percent. Instead they just TAKE a larger percent. All the while they can spend 30-40 million in dues for a conference. FOR ONE WEEKEND.
3) Demoncrats, unions, and overall uneducated people alike cringe when someone says "Right To Work". I wonder why? Why would anybody say you have to join a group and pay me money in order work here. Man, that's the gig I need. I need to be able to say to people go down the street get a job, go to work every day, and at the end of the month stop by here and give me 2 1/2 hours of your pay. The reasons they hate right to work is no one would join the union. The unions would dissolve. There would be no unions to line the Demoncrat coffers. Less Demoncrats would be in office and the stupid people believe that the Republicans would pass laws against them reproducing. I do believe that making people join a union in order to work is unconstitutional and I really hope that some time in the near future it will get settled. In the mean time, in Hardin County KY we have the AFL/CIO suing because they voted the county right to work. It needs to get settle soon because the last link is about Volvo building a plant there. If they don't have to worry about the UAW dictating what they have to do, HC just might have a chance to get the plant. I have many more but I'll save them for a different post.
http://www.wlky.com/news/New-Albany-to-offer-incentives-for-Pillsbury-plant-to-remain-open/30905656?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=WLKY%20News%20Louisville,%20Kentucky%20-%20wlkynews&Content%20Type=Story&linkId=11936886
http://www.wdrb.com/story/27927345/ford-must-stay-competitive-with-new-uaw-contract-executive-says#.VMPIRZdFawU.facebook
http://www.wdrb.com/story/27926644/kentucky-one-of-three-states-being-considered-for-new-volvo-plant
