Since liberals hate big business isn't it a contadiction to love unions?

Question

Unions seem to me to be the biggest business of all. They take your money, have no real overhead and protect the lazy workers who make big mistakes and don't care if they are a benefit to the company they work for. What do they really do besides get rich off blue collar people? I think they just rob the very people they are supposed to protect from the so called "EVIL"Corporations. I say "Thank you" to the big corporations. Without them I would be looking for work. Why do people care how much money a corporation makes? The more money they make the more likely I will be to retain my job. So "I WANT" to work for people who make lots of money.Shouldn't we all?

Answer 1

Everything radical liberals do and believe is a contradiction of something else they do or believe. My friend is a radical liberal who lectures me to eat healthier, yet he gets completely wrecked on alcohol every weekend. But don't tell them that because they are more intelligent than you and everyone else on earth.

Answer 2

You don't know very much about unions do you? Unions are organisations of workers that make collective bargaining with employers easier. It is the work of unions that produced award wages, paid holidays, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, bereavement leave, penalty rates, paid public holidays, workers compensation, unfair dismissal laws etc etc etc. Without unions, employers would have to depend on the altruism of the employers and it because of that lack of altruism that unions became necessary in the first place.

In Australia the present Government has virtually banned collective bargaining in an attempt to make unions redundant so that all the hard-won gains can be taken away. It won't work and Little Lying Johnny and his cohorts will be chucked out at the next election.