I hope everyone enjoyed your labor Day holiday. It was brought to you by the unions.
Here are a few other things that labor unions have given to you: Child labor laws,
Disability insurance, Fair pay for work performed, Forty hour work weeks, Pensions,
Over and double-time pay, Retention of American jobs on American soil, Retirement, Safety regulations, Survivor's benefits, and Workplace health insurance.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/0...We haven't heard much about what unions have done to help workers this year because unions have been under attack. There are many problems in the country and many of those problems are being pinned on the unions.
Remember that unions are literally Democracy in action. Who knows better than the workers about the problems in the workplace? Who knows better which things work, which saves money, which practices are unsafe? Who knows better than the workers how to solve the nation's problems?
Unions realize that in tough times they have to be flexible and in nearly all areas unions have made major wage and benefit concessions.
The problem is not that union members have unfairly high wages and benefits. The problem is that the rest of the workers do not. Unions raise all boats.
The conservatives that are attacking unions and the workers rights of collective bargaining want to eliminate any representatives that are working for the good of the people. They will not be happy until America has no safety protections, no workers protections, no pollution protection, and wages comparable to those in China.
Unions want jobs to stay in this country and they want the workers to be protected and to be able to make a living wage. They want the same for every other worker in the country.
The unions made the middle class and now that unions are disappearing the middle class is also disappearing. There is a direct correlation between union membership and the decline in wages.
Instead of being angry at the union workers who are doing the hard work of protecting us, educating us and keeping everything working, we should be angry at those who control 95% of the money in the country but who make a thousand times as much an hour by hiring others to do their work for them.