Why do the unions generally almost always support the Democratic party?

Answer 1

Because in general, the Republican party supports anti-labor legislation and favors the big corporations. The Democrats tend to be more supportive of the working man.

Answer 2

Because the Democratic party generally almost always supports the unions.

Answer 3

The democratic party use to insure that the honest working people had the opportunity to advance and acquire some security and savings to retire on .
They had a graduated tax system that allowed the poor to accumulate some savings .
Today we have what has been sold as a fair tax plan that taxes people at roughly the same rate .

The problem with that is the rich who benefit the most pay the least .

The roads we travel to get to work and the bridges we cross benefit the rich 50 weeks out of the year . We use them for two weeks or even less in most cases for our own pleasure while they use them 365 days a year to transport goods and services to customers .

Those who benefit the most from this should pay for it .

In the past it was recognized that the rich benefit to a greater extent from our infrastructure and should therefore pay more in taxes .
Democrats use to believe this and today both parties serve the rich and are run by them . How much good can a man do that should reward him with tens of millions of dollars .
A trial lawyer is not feeding the masses or providing them homes .
Unions have a way or redirecting the profits from the top to the people actually doing all the work and its strange these days that we value sales people and admen more then workers who actually do provide us with what we need .

Answer 4

Many of your answerers seem to think that the Democratic party supports the workers and the unions and that the unions support the workers. I have relatives who belong to unions and are Democrats. In my conversations with them I have come to realize that they are very gullable people who believe these lies in the face of evidence in their own experiences that they have not been helped by the union and that nothing gets better when the Democrats are in office. I wonder if what happens after this next election will teach them anything. Americans need to read some American History books before making a decision about voting.

Answer 5

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to u.s. or the Soviet Union , strengthen outstanding right into a constitutionally socialist state that existed between 1922 and 1991, ruled as a single-social amassing state via the Communist social amassing with Moscow as its capital. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, its government and financial kit have been somewhat centralized.

Answer 6

economic studies show that increases in the minimum wage usually result in increases in the wages of union members even though they result in job losses for the lowest paid (and mostly non-union) workers.

so many unions tend to support the Democrats as the people who will cause their wages to go up even though this hurts poor people.

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Also, the union mentality is that everyone should get the same wages. This socialist outlook fits very nicely with the socialist mentality of the Democratic left wing and is antagonistic to the free (labor) market driven philosophy of the Republicans.

You can see this in action in the teacher's unions. They believe that teachers of english and social studies should be paid the same as teachers of math, science, and special education -- despite that we have shortages of math, science, and special education teachers because, in part, teaching those subjects is more difficult than teaching english and social studies.

[Math and science people also have more job opportunities in private enterprise at better wages. However, the teachers' unions do not care about this except as an excuse to raise the wages of english teachers -- which, if we did so, would only produce a larger glut of wanna be english teachers who can't get jobs because there are too many of them already!]


does this help?

Answer 7

Nafta is the death knell for labor unions in our country and Bubba(dem) was all for it.
Now corporations can find non union labor with no safety or health regulations and slave wages abroad to replace us with the full blessing of government.

Answer 8

I just threw up a little in my mouth. The idea that the Dems support the average working man is completely ignorant. Just as ignorant as thinking the Reps support the working man. The only reason either party would support the average working American is to keep them in the spot of average working American.

Answer 9

Because unions work to benefit workers and to protect them from oppression by the companies. Republicans don't care about the working man as long as the CEOs of the company make profit... Ilogical, but true.

Answer 10

Because the democratic party supports everyday working class Americans. The republicans only care about multi-millionaire CEOs.