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A Cynical Process

jturning Wrote: May 01, 2012 12:03 PM
I work in a CWA shop that was just unionized a few years ago, now on a new contract negotiation with strike vote completed and capable of being called at any time. My employer basically agreed to a card check, so I never got to vote. Consequently, it wasn't the good employees that brought in the union, and many of the claims for unionization were emotional appeals on issues the union really can't control, i.e. center closure. After seeing the contracts reward seniority with nothing for merit, I've seen my pay and raises get stifled under union contracts. There is now an anti-management attitude by employees along with Marxist rhetoric from the union employees. It has harmed my employers business and isn't good for good employees.
Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being -- not by what they actually are or what they actually do.

Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protectors of working people from their employers. And union bosses still employ that kind of rhetoric. However, someone once said, "When I speak I put on a mask, but when I act I must take it off."

That mask has been coming off, more and more, especially during the Obama administration, and...

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