In fact, my own family comes from a long line of union workers from the factories and steel mills in Western Pennsylvania. They were staunchly Democrat, since that is what the unions told them to be.
Fast forward to the present day where wages, worker safety, and other worker’s affairs are highly regulated by laws. Today, the labor unions are no longer necessary, but rather a disease infecting our country. Today, unions are corrupt and greedy and more of a political tool for Democrats than an actual need.
A few days ago, these Labor Unions began to march on the state house in Wisconsin because the Republicans, who became the majority in the state senate, proposed a bill that would make unions contribute more to their pensions and healthcare costs. Also, they proposed to take away the union’s collective bargaining rights. Then, when it came time to vote on the bill, the house Democrats fled to Illinois to delay the vote. (They can not vote on the bill unless at least one house Dem is present.)
Now, every day on the news the teachers that came to protest and caused schools all over the state to close down and prison guards who did the same, forcing the governor to call in the National Guard to keep the prisons running. They hold up signs with a Hitler mustache drawn on the Governor’s face and chant “this is what Democracy looks like”. But they don’t give a shit about Democracy because Democracy is what got the Republicans the majority in that state to stop the massive spending that most liberal states in the country have gotten into. Yet, they act like we killed their family with the increasingly violent protest (when they realized that they aren’t going to get what they wanted, they began to show their fangs).
They expect all of us who have private sector jobs to feel their pain. Even our wonderful President went on the air and said that we should have compassion for these people. They are just our family members trying to make an honest buck. Meanwhile, the unions continue to hire through the “good ol’ boy” system, making it virtually impossible to get one of these jobs unless you know someone who owes someone a favor. Most of us in the private sector, who often times had to bust our asses to get our jobs and then bust ass even harder to keep them, make a fraction of what these union douchers make. We are supposed to be weeping into our pillows, ready to take arms beside them because the Republicans ask that they pay a little more toward their pensions and healthcare while it still would not even be half of what we pay in the private sector.
“But we would lose our collective bargaining rights.” They cry into the camera. Well we certainly wouldn’t want you to have to bargain your wages and job security based on the merits of your actual work like we do. That would be unfair. Because you people in the unions are much higher life forms than we are out here in the real world. Once you put a couple of years into your teaching jobs, you shouldn’t have to teach a god damned thing ever again. Because you’ve earned the right to float through life on your lazy, greedy asses and we are just scum who deserve to work 100 hour weeks to pay taxes so you have your security.
I remember traveling to Pennsylvania when the toll booth workers went on strike because they wanted a guaranteed 4 weeks of vacation and better health benefits. They all went on strike just before the Thanksgiving holiday, which is the busiest time for the Turnpike. I began laughing and crying hysterically when I heard that most of them made well into the six figure mark because they scam the state for overtime. I thought, wow, it isn’t some great job that everyone dreams about but what I wouldn’t have given to make double or triple what I was making to sit in a booth all day and do what a minimum wage cashier does. Of course, this is just one small example of the disease that is the unions. They leave their jobs to strike on a regular basis because they think they deserve so much more than you and I.
I say fire every union asshole who called in sick and protested to steal more money from you and I. What is not being reported is that if these liberal states don’t balance their budget, they would go bankrupt and have to be bailed out with our tax money anyway. And if they don’t contribute a little more in those states, taxes would have to be raised to gouge the true working class anyway.
The unions once had a purpose. Now their purpose is to steal from hard workers. It should be us out there protesting but most of us have to work to feed our families. If only we were some higher life form that was worthy of those union jobs.
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