Kevyn wrote:
There is no such thing as a union boss, the boss is the foreman, CEO, or business owner. Labor unions all have elected leaders to represent members not bosses. If a majority of union members no longer feel the union benefits them they can v**e to decertify the union. Right to work laws should be abolished, if an employee doesn’t want to work in a union shop they can not be a member and simply pay a small agency fee that covers the cost of representing them in disciplinary disputes and for the specific costs associated with collective bargaining. Not a penny of this can be used for any political activity, this simply prevents freeloading.
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Kevyn, first you state: "There is no such thing as a union boss, the boss is the foreman, CEO, or business owner. Labor unions all have elected leaders to represent members not bosses."
Just off the top of my head,
Please explain who were the Cold Warriors, George Meany and Lane Kirkland or Irving Brown in the AFL-CIO?
Please tell us who John Sweeney was of the AFL-CIO who engaged in insider trading with World.com stealing worker pension funds,
Or tell us who John Trumpka is, of the AFL-CIO
Or Andy Stern and John Truxel of the SEIU, are.
All these Labor Leaders are elected over and over because of force membership and forced dues, Labor Board laws making it virtually impossible for workers to divest from a crooked unions (divestment opportunities in 4 year cycles within a day v****g). Since forced membership began, labor unions lost 3/4th of their membership after WWII. Many of these Labor Leaders make sweetheart deals under the table with CEOs. Too many
Labor Leaders embezzled the s**t out of workers pension funds. I kid you not:
NRTWC Newsletter
Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed" Vol. 6, No. 8 - August 2007
(I keep these things, being a member since 1983)
Big Labor U.S. Representatives Move to Protect Crooked Union Bosses"The OLMS's [Office of Labor Management Standards - the police force within the US Department of Labor] current budget of $47.7 million is quite modest for an agency that bears sole responsibility for overseeing the financial integrity of unions with combined annual receipts of more than $20 billion. And the OLMS' budget constitutes just 0.4% of all Labor Department discretionary spending...
[the GOP wanted to restore previous 2007 funding, the Democrat Party 2008 budget cuts greatly impeded ongoing investigations of Labor Leaders' embezzlement of its rank and file pension funds]
"Over the past six years, the OLMS's audit program has helped the Justice Department obtain nearly
800 convictions of crooked union bosses and their cohorts. Yet in 2006, the OLMS had the staff of to audit only 4.6% of the unions that are required to file federal disclosure forms..."
Nobody in their right mind wants this kind of "representation." Most of us want to be weighed upon our individual merit and can speak for ourselves. Sometimes we end up working for crooked employers, but that is a rare exception, because CEO's k*****g their employees and customers generally go out of business - PDQ. And more often than not, go straight to jail. Only politicians don't go to jail sleeping with the labor leaders. We have to fix that. Trump was going after the Clintons and Bidens big time.
On the other hand, many small businesses fail within the first 2 years because they have no access to start-up capital and cannot beat the Federal Reserve Bank's counterfeiting inflation machine that devours profits. This too, needs to be fixed, and President Trump was solving our currency problem before the CCP hacked our v****g machines and installed the crooks once again to power.
Millions of dollars were siphoned out of SEIU dues in California to subsidize the Democrat Party Candidates, and we sued 'em to court and won, but only too late. The Supreme Court mandated Republican and Independent government workers be reimbursed, but it was all in vein since the crooked Democrats were elected and installed long before the Court could act. We employees were hard working, honest, responsible for handling billions of dollars in cash, yet the unions negotiated puny salaries, many times with next to no benefits even after many years of service, until we became highly suspicious and sought another union for representation. The new union was severely threatened and so were us employees.
We were stuck with the SEIU. They told me I should be grateful for the wage increase of 44 Cents over a ten year period! So I threw their propaganda back at them. I said "I don't want a raise, I want you to double the buying power of my dollar." CEOs in the private sector were not the problem, the government inflation was the problem. They told me I was nuts. They refused to acknowledge the Federal Reserve's counterfeiting was the greatest cause of our nation's poverty. "Oh, oh, the big bad corporations, they chanted." Stupid is as stupid does. I quit.
Life is hell on earth when you can't trust anybody!