Originally Posted by
pilotrob23
Unions have been great for America. We are doing so well!
Weekends, holidays, paid vacation, sick leave, workers compensation for lost life and limb, retirement benefits, work place safety, child labor laws . . .
All these benefits that you take for granted came at the expense of lost lives and hard work from previous "unions", but because Milton Friedman convinced America that Unions were the devil we now have a group of workers that are convinced that Unions are the problem. Could it be that Unions are not the problem? That sometimes pure Capitalistic Laissez Faire economics is not the total solution?
Nahhh. . .
Down with the unions! Especially ALPA. It doesn't help me even though I have done nothing to help ALPA . . . . ALPA is the problem. The individual should get everything they want without having to get involved!
Ah, yeah, no.
Study the history of unions and how they can be effective and how they can be abusive. Then come back and post . . .
And, for the record, America is the most powerful and efficient nation in the history of mankind and our middle class, which is the backbone of the nation, is successful in no small part because of the unionization that occured immediately before and after WWII.