CNS: If American labor unions were normal private organizations, neither the U.S. Congress nor state lawmakers would have any substantial interest in ensuring they were run fairly and democratically. But ever since Congress authorized so-called “exclusive” union bargaining in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), unions have not been normal private organizations.
Under the NLRA and other federal and state statutes with analogous provisions, a union does not represent only its members. In the words of Dr. Charles Baird, a noted labor-policy specialist, a union endowed with monopoly-bargaining privileges “represents all the workers who voted for it, all the workers who voted against it, and all the workers who did not vote … .”
Moreover, where there is “a certified union,” individual employees “are prohibited from representing themselves in matters having to do with wages and salaries and other terms and conditions of employment … .”
In a well-intentioned effort to prevent Big Labor from abusing the extraordinary powers it had been granted nearly a quarter-century earlier by the NLRA, in 1959 Congress adopted the Landrum-Griffin Act, which requires, in part, that unions use “reasonable qualifications uniformly imposed” in determining members’ eligibility to run for union office, and conduct organizational elections “in accordance with the constitution and bylaws” of the union.
Labor Unions established themselves as nothing but another libtard political entity when they encouraged the most favored trading partner agreement with China.
OT, There’s a leaked transcript coming from the White House were DJT ripped RIPPED staff, including Kelly about their trade positions with China. If this proves to be true you can stop worrying about the globalists taking over. Like true Trump supporters knew all along.
The old socialism added to the new socialism = UNIONS.
Corrupt highly paid Union leaders live and rub elbows with the elite to maintain power and control.
At one time, when government was weak and Big Business was strong, we needed unions to protect workers. Now unions have grown too powerful and are oppressing the people they were supposed to protect. No matter how we attempt to solve the problems of mankind, some people will find a way to take advantage of it. Thus it has been and thus it will ever be, whether we like it or not.
Look, let’s just band together, form a robot union and get ahead of the corruption curve for once.
” form a robot union”
They already have one. The Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union.
Great, we kick those nerds out and start running the worl’
Outside of the Machinists Union in Everett, WA. the home of the largest Boeing plant, is a statue of striking workers standing around a trash can with burning picket signs for heat. Sickening. If Boeing leaves Washington it is the fault of unions.
Boeing…..um…Boeing moved it’s headquarters to Chicago about 7 years ago.
Joe,
Yep, that’s them. Compare a machinist wage to say an electrician or a plumber. And then research what you need to know to be an actual machinist. That Union certainly does not have it’s member best interests at heart. An extension of the DNC.
Yes, they moved their headquarters to Chicago but the biggest share of their production is still in Washington.
“Boeing moved it’s headquarters to Chicago about 7 years ago.”
More than 50% of manufacturing still takes place in the Seattle area. Raytheon’s headquarters are some where deep in Massachusetts, but they don’t buy shit from there. Another offender.
Our robot union will be headquartered in Vegas.
Abolish all of the state and federal worker unions as a start.
@Vietvet August 27, 2017 at 11:35 pm
“At one time, when government was weak and Big Business was strong”
But the time when seas of unicorns thundered beneath a sky full of pegasi is long gone. I’ve never met a single old coot that even claims to misremember it.
(“Big business” exists, exclusively, as an extension, created of, by, and for the “government.” Quotes all around, so that calling it “six” and “half-a-dozen” as a distinguishing feature is not misinterpreted as actual confusion.)