And this black lady on welfare owned a Cadillac.
LOL, I love the anecdotes about how unions ruined America from people who are worse off as a result of the undermining of workers.
My dad was a Teamster, totally corrupt union, but he made a pretty good living on forklift driver pay. That was back in the 50-60s when America was great, you know, where we all want to go
Again?
BTW unions can't force you to contribute to their political causes, and not just in "Right To Be Fired" states. Unions can charge you for their efforts to get you higher pay and benefits but thats all. See
SCOTUS: PATTERN MAKERS v. NLRB(1985)Of course you are free to work in a non-union shop and make less - without benefits and brag about how rich your boss is getting off your sweat, it's a free country. Back when I was a non-union carpenter in the '70/80s sometime, I was making $7/hr unless I accidentally fell in to a prevailing wage government job, then it was $15/hr. Boy was I glad to not be paying that $8 or $10 bucks a month in dues! Whew! 'Merica!
Things are lots better today, for CEOs. They've eliminated unions for the most part and their average pay has increased almost 1,000% since 1978
From 1978 to 2018, CEO compensation grew by 1,007.5% (940.3% under the options-realized measure), far outstripping S&P stock market growth (706.7%) and the wage growth of very high earners (339.2%). In contrast, wages for the typical worker grew by just 11.9%.
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But hey, those "average workers" don't have to pay union dues! Freedom!!!
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I gotta think that the upheaval in the republican party is in part, some small part, the realization that they have been getting screwed by the old tinkle-down reaganomics voo-ddo these last 40 years, compounded by the Clinton's Third-Way social pandering and offshoring, W's tax giveaway, and trumps bait and switch: "I'm gonna raise taxes on the wealthy...NOT! Suckers!"
No doubt there will always be the wannabes who aspire to be seen as sophisticated friends of the 1%, or defenders of whatever but at some point little folks are going to see the Libs enacting policies that actually help people and the Rs talking all this crap about how the market this and capital that and Mexicans are taking your jobs an Dr Suesse is getting CANCELED and tranny golfers are keeping your daughter from winning... Aren't they ever going to realize they've been getting screwed?
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)