Hillbilly Report:: Republican War Against Enlightenment
"The facts show that not only are unions good for workers, but that they actually help economic growth by insuring that more Americans are able to have buying power by spreading the wealth more evenly to all Americans:"
If that's socialism, I'll take all I can get. But it's not; it's good old capitalism when both employer and employee have a stake in making a profit. The company I retired from was all union and were so in every state where we had a presence, including the southeastern states. We were the largest specialty subcontractor in the US and 100% employee owned. We could have easily been non-union but chose not to because we dealt in quality and performance. Unions provided the workers that could provide us those things. We competed for contracts against non-union firms and won them time after time because of the quality of our labor force. We all contributed to the economy...and that's a bad thing, how?
The growth and decline of the middle class pretty much tracks union membership. Not only that, union members tend to not get distracted by social issues. E.g., to a union member, whether or not candidates are pro- or anti-choice weigh much less heavily than economic positions.
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