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.

PF I have worked union as well as private sector. I was pointing out that the union boast of they created the 40 hour work week was untrue as are a lot of their other claims. I witnessed their bully tactics that kept losers employed and were nothing but millstones to the company and in the long run the employees as well.

I heard a story I believe about a maintainer being dynamited in MO over union nonsense

it never made sense to me why unions support big government regulation...

Any where there is BIG money involved,,you find corruption.ANYWHERE. Even in Religions. Its just a fact.Look at our Government.The union workers,,the rank and file,,do not support Gov.regulation.Its the Big guys in the unions getting their wheels greased.The working stiff just keeps on working trying to provide a decent life for the family.

Call it for what it is, a money laundering scheme.

Taxpayer money to the union, union money to the democrat, money in democrat pocket.

And a democrat middleman siphoning money at every transactional step.

Unions are a byproduct of management

Unions are good even when there is no Union.
The Mine where my son works had a push going on, a couple years ago, by some workers, to unionize.
My Son was against it.They get many benefits from the company already same as what unionized companys in the same biz get.
When the push was on to unionize the mine,The mine offered a substantial increase in the monthly production bonuses they pay.
The push to unionize failed.
But the fact the union push was on resulted in a large monetary gain for all the workers.
Unions are good.

agreed if we didn't have unions to fight for higher wages better working conditions people that are not in unions would make nowhere what they make if it wasn't for unions pushing for higher wages.these companies/factories don't give a rats a-- about there employees its all about greed