Labor Supporters Say Unionization Will Boost Middle Class
February 13, 2009 Reported By: Josie Huang
Union membership in the United States rose last year by the largest amount in a couple of decades, by about 428,000 people. But most of the gain was among government workers, and the labor movement says it is a struggle to unionize workers in the private sector.
Reported on a Friday the Thirteenth. Conveniently intentional, deliberate, or something else.
Is the headline true of false?
I say false.
Why? I am firmly in the middle class having arrived without the benefit of unionization.
How? Work ethic, performance, education, and experience. Financial literacy helps too.
More on the EFCA to follow.
Bottom line, Big Labor isn’t anymore.
This initiative must fail for reasons beyond the current collective economic distress.
I heard that this will be pushed back to Obama’s 2010 agenda. This of course from Lobbyists in Washington.
Our current political agendas don’t sit well with me. The acts that I have read that have Mr. Obama’s backing are down right crippling to our businesses. Businesses that thrive off of our needs. I define our as the middle class. And I regret to say that unions will not benefit middle class America.
Look at this for ex, you have a company currently in the automotive world. They are experiencing a reduction in sales and therefore don’t have work to schedule for 5 days a week. They are down to four days.
You have a union come in and organize guaranteeing they can get you 5 days a week. They go about things and next thing you know the worker has 5 days a week- but at what cost? If the ER closes up shop ….how is that ee still getting 5 days a week? Maybe in unemployment. Is that not forcing our work overseas to China? Again how is that assisting the middle class or better yet the small business owner? You have to be able to look at the whole picture and foresee what would come. For every action there is a reaction.
M said this on March 4, 2009 at 11:44 am