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impartialobserver » 21 Jun 2022, 6:03 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2022, 6:03 pm

As I see it, unionism had its place in the past. Today... not quite. Have worked in two unionized settings and both times, it was was no utopia. yes, we got paid more but there were drawbacks that more than cancelled out the extra $2.00 per hour that we were earning.

I have been in management for decades and have successfully thwarted/resisted shop unionization many times. In each case, it would have been a disaster for EVERY stake holder if the workers had voted to unionize. 

And that is what you are refering to. Shop unions. 

TRADE unions are something entirely different. They are guilds, in essence - and they are highly functional, highly reliable, and extremely useful to society - now, more than ever. As the building trades have grown more complex to meet the expanding demands created by better and better technology, highly trained workers - UNION workers, GUILD workers - are more essential than ever. 

Shop unions began life sucking and continue to suck. (I guess they were ARGUABLY "necessary" at some point in our history.) So, when you say "unions," and you do not specify, you make the same mistake as tranny-worshiper @Skans . It's like lumping geishas with crack whores. They have some common elements - but they are not the same thing.