FJO
Gold Member
If you don't have the right to work, you will NEVER achieve what you are capable of. Being an unwilling member of a bully union might give you temporary and totally unearned financial advantage, but no person with even the slightest amount of self-respect can be happy about advantages that were given to him by a union, of which he is a dues-paying slave.
I made a strong and successful effort to get out of the union which I was forced to join. If I had stayed in the union, I would have retired as a poorly paid laborer, instead of getting the opportunity to become a successful and self-taught computer programmer. I would have never had the pleasure of crossing picket lines and work for the company that put bread and butter on my table, rather than wasting my time walking the picket line for the bastards whose main ambition was to sabotage the company in order to make a phony stand, chasing a raise in pay, which would never catch up with the loss of wages caused by an insane strike.
If you want to see the accomplishments of unions, look at Detroit. Or in the same state, the union that is fighting to give a teacher, a child molesting member, a $10,000 severance pay.
Before Unions, children were going down into the mines for 60 hours a week and women were jumping out of burning factories.
Your children may not have the opportunity, with outsourcing, to become successul computer programmers.
I do not denigrate you for your choices but I don't think you should denigrate others for their choice to join a labor union.
If you really want to evaluate the worth of unions, you need to compare countries with strong union movements with those without union movements, like most, i not all, of the third world countries.
If you really want to evaluate the worth of unions, you need to compare countries with strong union movements today with what they were like before they became countries with unions.
I wonder how much a computer programmer in Pakistan makes.
Your defense of unions citing child labor is every bit as hollow and meaningless as bitching about slavery. Just as there is not a single black person who was ever a slave (unless being a slave to the oppressive socialist/liberal ideology and racist masters like Al Sharpton), there is not a single person who was ever exploited as a child laborer (unless that child was forced to sing in a chorus deifying Obama).