Originally Posted by
aboutime
Gunny. SEIU wants those Fast Food Workers to join a Union. Either THEIR new Union, or S.E.I.U. SEIU has been losing members over the last several years. Which means...losing DUES, which means THEY NEED MORE DUES PAYING members.
And I must disagree with you again on Union employee's being skilled labor. Many cities, towns, and counties have Union member street sweepers, and hole diggers.
I was once a member of the TEAMSTERS with my father, at 16, before I joined the navy. They were dedicated to the memberships then, but the Leadership always got the biggest paychecks AFTER everybody else.
Unions like S.E.I.U. are only representing workers who need someone to bargain for their wages, and benefits. So, if they can get Fast Food workers to get a minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour. That benefits SEIU as they collect a percentage of that 15 dollars as dues.
I understand the mechanics to the union. My grandfather was a union man, and my trade is permeated with it. Where we differ in definition could be where we live. If you aren't a skilled tradesman HERE, you aren't in a union. The union doesn't dictate squat. When I was in Ohio and IL, it was just the opposite. I couldn't find non-union work. The laws basically allowed the unions out anyone that wasn't part of them.
I'd like to see them try to unionize unskilled labor HERE. Especially fast food burger flippers. Dime-a-dozen. Go ahead and quit.
I think it boils down to the difference in where you live and where I do. This is a right to work state and its laws emasculated the union and there's no shortage of manpower. Want to bitch? Bye. Want to get paid more than you are worth? Bye. We got LOTS of people to replace you.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke