are you for or against worker unions?

Answer 1

I audit the unions and that is what puts food on my table. This way I don't need to be a broken down bum and rob you dumb idiots who feel that they could do the unions jobs better just so that I can feed my family.

Would you want your home built by a regular joe builder, or a skilled carpenter who has to go to school that the unions pay for so that you keep up to date with newest building proceedures. I'll take UNION QUALITY over some schmuck that just walked in and got a job with Joe Contractor.

Answer 2

I am personally against them, with regard to trucking only, but do not discourage people from joining them. I just point out the facts, and explain my view.

My hard core reasons for not being for the union:

1> Today's laws protect workers, there really is no need for the union any more.

2> The "Union Worker" frame of mind is too liberal, and actually costs a company unneeded costs, especially when a disgruntled union member wants to get even.

3> As for pay, specifically in trucking, non-union wages are just as good as union wages, if not better! Once a union member pays the dues, goes through a strike and/or layoff, the "better" wages just got lowered.

4> To me, union members are like sheep, and you HAVE to do what they do, or else!

I have other views/opinions but those are the most important to me! :)

Answer 3

Union are not what they use to be. I personally do not like Unions each time you get a raise your Union dues go up--I was in a Union once never used the services had to pay an tremendous amount of dues. When President Regan fried the Air Traffic controllers many years ago--Unions have been loosing their touch.
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A labor union is an organization through which employees act as a group (through representatives) to negotiate with employers about grievances, disputes, pay, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. These actions are called "collective bargaining." The National Labor Relations Act. (NLRA) guarantees the right of workers in the private sector to unionize. Nonunionized employers that want to retain that status need to be aware of the tactics that unions use to attract workers. The NLRA defines the process a union must follow to become the bargaining agent for a group of workers, sets out the rules for collective bargaining, and provides limited rights to employees in nonunion settings.

Answer 4

While it is true that some unions have abused their members as badly as the employer ever did, and that organized crime has infiltrated too many unions and also that when a union becomes too powerful they defend the indolent and lazy and preserve their jobs in spite of their lack of production, they are still necessary.

Keep in mind these facts: prior to the rise of unions the working men and women were slaves; if unions disappeared today workers would be slaves again tomorrow.

Unions have already been weakened too much by globalization and right wing politicians watering down labour laws.

Workers of the world unite!

Answer 5

I am for unions. Corporations take advantage of workers with no regard to their safety, healthy, well being. Look at any industry from coal mining to clerical work and you will find an untold amount of workers being bullied on the job, harassed, made to work in unsafe conditions, doing jobs they have not been trained for or a part of their job description and untold millions working without healthcare which is hideous in this day and age. Unions, even the worst of them, help level the playing field. Workers need more people fighting for their rights, not less.

Answer 6

if you are under 40, you can see the flawed nature as they exist in moder times, if you are over 40, you are wondering how you can be assured if you hurt yourself, what will happen to you, you die on the job, who will get your family the money, if your wages are cut or they do something wrong, who will stand by you.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. People see some unions that are oranised on fat and slack in modern times. You don't remember the 60 hour work weeks, the minimum wage increase, lack of healthcare, child labor, fire escapes (see: the Triangle shirt-waist company fire of the 1900's). Unions created 'weekends' because the only break you would have had in the early 1900's was a few hours for church on Sunday morning.

Me? I was going to join the camera operators' union in Hollywood, and still might.

Answer 7

Being a child of parents that were in unions and there were 4 of us kids..,my parents worked two jobs to support all of us and when the unions went on strike,they left my parents out in the cold.They meaning the union,dont care about people trying to support their families nor try to help them.I am very much against Unions,all they are concerned about it the union dues going into their pockets and thats it.Screw everybody else.

Answer 8

Very much against it.

They are a thing of the past and all they do now is provide shelter for lazy, unqualified people that do nothing while at work.
Unions also constantly dictate what to do by threatening strikes.
I also firmly believe that they should be completely banned from governments. No government workers should be allowed to strike as they are there to serve the public and most of their tasks can be considered as essential services for the safety, security and smooth running of an entire city, province, nation.

Unions are useless.

Answer 9

Well I am a conservative, and while I generally find myself at odds with what seem to me to be the socialist tendencies of unions, I am entirely comfortable with the idea that every individual is free to associate with any group he or she chooses (at least within reason). Where I part company with unions is when they insist on closed shop rules and work to strike down state right to work laws, as then they are coercing memhership. That violates others' freedom to choose.

Answer 10

Personally, I have had three negative experiences with labor unions.

First, when I was a child, my grandmother and her sister were on the board for a company based in my hometown. Some of their truckers went on strike, and instead of picketing only at the office, they picketed at my 75 year old great-aunt's home, throwing things at it, scaring her out of her wits, and forcing her to stay inside. The police had to remove the picketers for trespassing. They should have kept their strike at their place of business, not at an old lady's home.

Second, my other grandmother was a teacher in an inner city school in Milwaukee, WI. The union said they had to strike, but she could not afford to not get paid, so she crossed the picket line. She was harassed ruthlessly, followed home and threatened. She wound up being so intimidated that she joined the strike even though it meant lost wages she could not afford.

When I started in the hotel industry in Washington, DC, I worked at a 5 star union property downtown. When I was the overnight manager, and the only one to check guests in and out, I asked a the overnight houseman to run to a 24 hour pharmacy to get something for a guest. He refused and flatly stated that it was not in his union contract. That is not hospitality. It is laziness.