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Originally Posted by nation-x
Assertions like that earn you a dunce hat. Just because someone supports the idea of a union doesn't mean they are communists... let's stick to the topic at hand rather than hyperbole.  |
Its simple (although i understand that it might not be simple enough for you). This is the year 2011. We don't need unions. Unions came into existence because there were no labor laws. Suggesting they are needed today because they "exist because.." pointing to events a century ago, is no different than suggesting civil wars need to happen to protect us from having slavery again or some similarly moronic analogy.
Unions in 2011, in the USA are destructive in nature. Their very existence is predicated on the notion that union members are being taken advantage of. There is no such thing as "fair" to a union member because if anyone was content, the union would cease to exist. Unions are about doing less for more. Our education system is a shining example of the destructive nature of unions... where a teacher is almost impossible to fire for any reason if they are tenured - no matter how useless they are as teachers.
This is a common problem:
In the past decade, LAUSD officials spent $3.5 million trying to fire just seven of the district's 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance — and only four were fired, during legal struggles that wore on, on average, for five years each. Two of the three others were paid large settlements, and one was reinstated. The average cost of each battle is $500,000.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/...#ixzz1PXSyuaLr