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Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet

d2lv2 Wrote: Feb 18, 2013 10:18 AM

I was stationed in Germany in the late 60s and they were touting full employment. One day I was coming off the Post and I saw why, there were workers working on the road. They were turning over the cobble stones. They were not replacing the cobble stones they were turning over the ones that had been there for years. They are not that smart. It was a standard joke that it took three Germans to change a light bulb, one to carry the ladder, one to take out the old bulb and one to screw in the new one. I actually saw this happen while on vacation at a resort.

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Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet

Alarm bells are going off for labor unions around the country.

Four years after electing the most pro-labor president of the last half-decade, it looks like the scheme has backfired.

In 2008 and 2012 labor unions used everything, including a little body English, ballot stuffing and voter intimidation to elect a president who would bring the prestige of presidential backing to recruitment efforts for labor unions.

Since then not only have labor unions taken historic defeats in former union strongholds, like Wisconsin and Michigan, labor union membership is declining at a rate that will make them a...