Originally Posted by
SayAlt
How is my rant way off base? Do you believe the avg. American is educated and informed enough to know the difference between public and private unions, much less why/how ALPA is different from the TSA?
I posit they aren't, and furthermore they could care less. Which leaves it to those of us who DO care about unions (and the middle class) to be the ones to get worked up over unions blatant ineffectiveness and the sub-par performance of it's membership. I posit that the avg. American will look at the TSA then lump ALPA in the same basket.
Put another way, the gross negligence of the TSA causes indirect but very real harm to other unions.
How am I wrong?
Very good points and well put. Your first post wasn't very clear, but I agree with you. I'm new to unions myself, but my husband is a union plumber. His dues go for our ridiculously cheap health insurance which covers quite a bit. I wish the unions spent more of their dues collections on public education of what types of unions there are and what they're good for.