22 Jun 2022 12:03 pm
My understanding is that Trade Unions follow the same collective bargaining rules as do Shop Unions.. In other words, they can force Employers to ONLY employ people who belong to the Union. I say Employers should be allowed to employ whoever they damn so choose. That's how its done in the South. We don't follow dumb Yankee-Communist laws.Cannonpointer » 21 Jun 2022, 8:57 pm » wrote: ↑ 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.