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The more I read about, the more I think unionization would be a good thing for America. Only if we put in laws forcing companies to stop outsourcing jobs and put strict conditions on our imports.
When I was growing up my father always said take up a trade or go to college. My mind could not see spending the amount of money a house costs nowadays to teach me something. So I took up a trade.
What a mistake that was, not because I wasn't the best at what I did but, I could have worked at Burger King or McDonald's for the same amount. Plus, I would have been farther ahead with all the fringe benefits these fast food restaurants offer.
Although I held three jobs when I was a kid ranging across many industries. I choose to get myself involved in the food industry. I took up the trade as a butcher. Twenty years later I was making ten dollars an hour. Ten dollars an hour is just getting by in today's standards especially if you have a family to support. I can guarantee my foremen was only getting paid twelve dollars an hour because he showed me his check.
I seen men that were butchers for forty years of their lives and their hands and back are crippled up beyond repair. The slaughter house is one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
If we were unionized that ten dollars an hour would have been sixteen dollars an hour easily. I hear and see many people bashing unions but unions are not why the economy is collapsing. Unions are saving us from a total collapse. These big companies are forced to keep their doors open. That is how powerful a union is and what it offers us blue collared workers.
With tough import regulations and strict laws limiting the outsourcing of jobs, we could have America back. It will be the blue collared workers who fix our economy. The longer the political talking heads on the Hill keep extending benefits the longer they choose not to deal with the problem head on.