Originally Posted by
ALPO Whisperer
Unions, by definition, are socialists. Unity, brotherhood, all for one, one for all, yada yada yada.
Most union members are good, decent folks that want to do well for their families and their company. What gives unions a bad name is their LEADERS. It ALWAYS starts at the top. It also doesn't help that most union leaders have political views that are directly opposed to the vast majority of their members.
Its too bad that you can't find a NATIONAL (or even local) union leader out there that will speak up and say, "Mr. President, are you listening? Your policies are hurting working people." That will never happen and that's part of the problem...
Sorry my friend, but unions are not socialistic. Socialism is "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.". Socialism is an economic system.
Unions started out as associations of workers with like skills that banded together to nurture and protect their craft.
Liberals hijacked craft unions in an attempt to gain control of economics on the micro scale because they are not enough motivated to work and succeed in the real world.
Airline pilots accept unionism because we know all too well that managers like Cord will grind us into the ground (no pun intended) without something to protect us. Airline pilot unions (whether the liberal leaders know it or not) main function is pilot protection. We protect seniority which protects against favoritism. We protect safety, because the government and industry would rather pay a lawsuit after we die in an inflight fire, than they would pay upfront for safety. We protect individual pilots from unfair discipline. Our economic power is very limited, because we all exist in a corporatist system. Not capitalist, but corporatist.
Gotta hit the lobby in less than an hour, see you in the jetway.