Not all unions. There are some unions that I feel are absolutely needed. The mining, logging and fishing industries are very dangerous jobs. The unions give them an added layer of protection for the people who are working in them.
But generally speaking unions have outlasted their usefulness. The reasons that unions were necessary back in the day no longer exist. We have laws in place of wages, fair pay, number of hours allowed to be worked, paid holidays, and the list goes on.
I also don't think the rank and file union member is bad at all. It is the very powerful people at the top that cause many of the problems.
There is a great deal of violence and illegal behavior involved in some unions. Just ask Jimmy Hoffa Sr.
I personally believe and can back it up that teacher unions stand in the way of much needed reform of public schools. Teachers who are not performing need to be fired. I also for the life of me don't understand why they are resisting performance pay. Many teachers will end up making more money. In return they give up some of the gold plated bennies that they get. It is a win win. The teachers make a higher pay, the kids get a better education, and the tax payers get some needed relief from these benefits packages that are no longer sustainable.
No one should be forced to join a union if they don't want to. They shouldn't be forced to pay union dues directly from their paychecks either. If they want to join, write a check.
A belief in the written constitution. The belief that we are responsible for ourselves and for our families. The belief that we are allowed to fail. The belief in a strong national defense are a few of the things that make me just a conservative girl.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
"I say this not to the teachers, but to their unions: If education were a war, you would be losing it. If it were a business, you would be driving it into bankruptcy. If it were a patient, it would be dying." Bob Dole
Yes, House Republicans have been in power for 5 hours and they have not passed their entire agenda. The New York Times things they should be canned and Democrats put back in charge. Don Surber
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"So I say huzzah to the 112th congress for reading the Constitution, for acting like it matters. It does. The Constitution may not be sacred, but the sacred has no better friend than the Constitution." Pat Archibold
"53% of Democrats have a postive view of socialism. 100% of republicans think those 53% are morons." Mark Levin
"Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness." First plank of the communist strategy for revolution - confiscated in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1919
"If you believe this isn't going to cost the government anything, you are likely to see leprechauns riding on unicorns with pots of gold circling the capitol" Rep. Devin Nunes, CA-21 on healthcare "reform".
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views". William F. Buckley, Jr.
"The Republicans were laughing and waving the American flag, and I thought that was ourtrageous behavior" Maxine Waters
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. Frederick Douglas
Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. Harriet Tubman
But I think the most important thing I have figured out was how not to lose hope even when things are bad and it feels like it won't get better. It will get better. You just have to keep working at it and moving forward. Homeless & Conservative
The way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimer Lenin
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. F.A. Hayek
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are unions bad? should they be eliminated?
Not all unions. There are some unions that I feel are absolutely needed. The mining, logging and fishing industries are very dangerous jobs. The unions give them an added layer of protection for the people who are working in them.
But generally speaking unions have outlasted their usefulness. The reasons that unions were necessary back in the day no longer exist. We have laws in place of wages, fair pay, number of hours allowed to be worked, paid holidays, and the list goes on.
I also don't think the rank and file union member is bad at all. It is the very powerful people at the top that cause many of the problems.
There is a great deal of violence and illegal behavior involved in some unions. Just ask Jimmy Hoffa Sr.
I personally believe and can back it up that teacher unions stand in the way of much needed reform of public schools. Teachers who are not performing need to be fired. I also for the life of me don't understand why they are resisting performance pay. Many teachers will end up making more money. In return they give up some of the gold plated bennies that they get. It is a win win. The teachers make a higher pay, the kids get a better education, and the tax payers get some needed relief from these benefits packages that are no longer sustainable.
No one should be forced to join a union if they don't want to. They shouldn't be forced to pay union dues directly from their paychecks either. If they want to join, write a check.
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