Unions are a byproduct of management

Providence, I get it . You feel ashamed that you continue to support communism with your union dues. At least that’s voluntary. You can quit the union. My taxes go to your pension regardless that I must by law pay them.

Labor unions were founded by communists. It was an attempt to turn the US into a socialist state like the Soviet Union. While overall the plan was a flop, the Communist Party USA did succeed in building labor unions. They just never got the majority of workers to go along with full blown communism.

Then where does the millions they donate come from if it's not from dues? What other sources of income do they have? How do they separate the dues out from the campaign funds donated?

I'm not being contrary here, I just want to learn how this works. I know for a fact that when my son was running for office, his opponent got money from the unions. And he's not anti-union by any stretch, he was a member of a Union at the time. (Still is, just a different union.)

Where did you ever read that? Unions were born and raised in the state of New York because then "illegal immigrants" from Europe were being treated just like slaves. After enough were killed, they all ganged up and formed a union of workers to protest against the unfair treatment, labor conditions and constant intimidation tactics. It was a really big deal because all of the raw material factories were in the North, processing the slave labor products to sell off to different countries.

Unions are the direct result of management not doing the right thing in the first place.

My brother was the warehouse manager for the largest food distribution company in the USA. I know full well that not every union worker is a rockstar, but its not like non union workers have some immaculate track record of working hard. That is unless we are talking about the slaves, they worked very hard and are one of the only examples of a group of people outperforming the entire country hard work wise.

My grandfather was a powerful and ethical Teamsters leader who unfortunately was booted by none other than Jimmy Hoffa and his corrrupt tricks. Had my grandfather lived longer, he likely would have been President of the Teamsters, both Hoffa and grandpa Bill died in 1973. No union member I have ever known outside of the wannabe trashcan teachers union has ever supported forced union membership. Union members can be fired easily, the difference is that employers have to go through a fair process for the union members. If you tell a union rep as a manager that one of his union workers is going on a performance plan, everybodys butthole puckers because they know they are getting close to being fired if they dont change up their behavior.

90% of union workers would much rather support republicans, but the pure simple fact is that republicans have never supported unions. Union bosses make me angrier than a lot of other executive officers of different companies because they truly know they can do whatever they want with so little reprecussions. To argue against pensions is just silly man, listen the stock market crash of 2008 should have changed every normal average persons opinion on that. Yeah does it suck to not have a say where tax dollars go? Absolutely, but by god I would rather it go to my fellow Americans who by not fault of their own may not get return on a system they paid into their entire working life. Just remember that the USGOV wastes far more money on foreign countries than could EVER be spent here on welfare, pension funds, and any other american citizen benefit combined. At the very least you can say that you helped your neighbor instesd of Ukraine, instead of gender studies in Venuzuala, Peru and all the taxpayer dollars that helped the Taliban.

I was never told who to vote for when I was Union.it was well known that Unions support those that support them.In the North that was the Left.
I let my union bosses know unequivically that I was Conservative because of my lifestyle(trapper making part of my income from my chosen lifestyle out on the land)And I voted Conservative because they supported me and my Lifestyle.
They had no problem with that.Nor could they because plenty in the union were trappers and hunters and voted C.
And I can say our Union worked closely with the Company for the good of both the workers and the Company=give and take on both sides.It was never in the Unions intrest to bankrupt the Company-Quite the opposite actually.As far as I remember we had 2 strike mandates in the 36 years I worked there,and one did not result in a stoppage of work,and one did but only for 2 or 3 days,as my memory serves.
The Union and the Company actually worked together to create the nuisance Beaver control Positions and seniority list.

A bunch of commie union members coming out of the Tman woodwork. Most of them claim to be conservatives. Yeah right.

Hooray for capitalism!

It doesn't matter your personal thoughts or how you vote the bottom line is your union dues are used to elect and support liberals and what they stand for. Your money is used to support gay marriage, abortions etc.

It doesn't matter your personal thoughts or how you vote the bottom line is your union dues are used to elect and support liberals and what they stand for. Your money is used to support gay marriage, abortions etc.

so just because i belong to a union im a commie? it has no bearing on my core beliefs OR how i vote. i work a second job thats non union also, if all union people are slothful & lazy as others have described, why would i do that?
internet forums are like c.b radios, you can run your mouth at someone & slither away like a snake.

There you go again accusing me of something I did not say, I never said ANYTHING about lazy workers. There's obviously no reasoning with you on this issue if you are going to deny something that is inherently true, that higher wages translates into higher costs. If you really don't think that's true there's not much use trying to have a rational conversation.