Unions or our economy; only one can survive:
Feb 14, 2010 10:23:58 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Feb 14, 2010 10:23:58 GMT -5
Unions or our economy; only one can survive: it’s time for “lifeboat” ethics
By Kevin “Coach” Collins, February 14, 2010, 7:35 am
January’s Department of Labor report brought bad news for Big Labor and good news for America. Private sector unions lost approximately 843,000 members last year and now make up just 7.2% of America’s work force.
This is a sharp drop from the early 1950’s level of 36% but what is more important is that today almost the same number (37.4%) of public sector workers are unionized. The union message is failing and workers with a choice don’t want unionization. Only government workers who have no choice are unionized in large numbers. This offers the possibility our nation can be saved from the Marxists strangling the life out of our economy.
The job of private sector unions is squeezing every last benefit they can from the companies who employ their members. This might sound fair and admirable, but in actual practice it has led to disastrous results for dozens of companies and several whole industries at the expense of millions of jobs.
In our current “bizzaro” world of Barack Obama’s Administration, we have an “Animal Farm” like condition where the Auto Workers’ Unions own part of the companies they “work” for. Like that “Hope and Change” gibberish this hasn’t worked out so well. General Motors and Chrysler which were once on top of Fortune’s 500 List are bankrupt and suffering withdrawal pains from the Obama/Unions fraudulent “Cash for Clunkers” swindle.
An either or situation
Unions will NEVER relax union rules and union rules are steadily killing private companies. Unions are a cancer that must be removed from our economy by the next Congress in order for us to have a chance to survive the damage this bunch from Chicago has done. It’s down to a clear choice: unions or America’s economy. Elect conservatives who will know which to choose.
Where stimulus money went
In spite of empirical evidence that governments consume wealth and never produce any, hundreds of billions of dollars of the so called “Stimulus” package we HAD to have went to governments to help them keep paying their unionized workers.
Those 7 million plus lost jobs you’ve read about have come out of private company payrolls. In contrast governments have increased their collective workforce by 10,000 new hires a month, many in the federal government.
According to Michael Barone, “.. the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession.”
His comments also included pointing out that non-union manufacturing employment has climbed since 1973 by 2 million workers and during the same period union manufacturing employment has fallen by the same 2 million.
Federal laws protect workers from unsafe workplaces, discrimination of all kinds and payroll and pension failures during corporate bankruptcies, so the time is right to finish off the parasitical unions before they kill our economy. The king really has no new suit of clothes and we’ve got to face it.
What have you done to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?
Source: townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2010/02/08/public-sector_unions_bleed_taxpayers_to_help_dems?page=full&comments=true
Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at -17
This day in history February 14
1929: Al Capone, another gangster from Chicago, ordered the murder of rival gangsters in a brutal mass assassination known ever since as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.
Have you read this week’s “Betcha didn’t know this..” page? It’s loaded with interesting little “bite size” items you’re bound to enjoy.
Comments on this or any other Collins Report essay can be sent to kcoachc “at” gmail.com
www.collinsreport.net/
By Kevin “Coach” Collins, February 14, 2010, 7:35 am
January’s Department of Labor report brought bad news for Big Labor and good news for America. Private sector unions lost approximately 843,000 members last year and now make up just 7.2% of America’s work force.
This is a sharp drop from the early 1950’s level of 36% but what is more important is that today almost the same number (37.4%) of public sector workers are unionized. The union message is failing and workers with a choice don’t want unionization. Only government workers who have no choice are unionized in large numbers. This offers the possibility our nation can be saved from the Marxists strangling the life out of our economy.
The job of private sector unions is squeezing every last benefit they can from the companies who employ their members. This might sound fair and admirable, but in actual practice it has led to disastrous results for dozens of companies and several whole industries at the expense of millions of jobs.
In our current “bizzaro” world of Barack Obama’s Administration, we have an “Animal Farm” like condition where the Auto Workers’ Unions own part of the companies they “work” for. Like that “Hope and Change” gibberish this hasn’t worked out so well. General Motors and Chrysler which were once on top of Fortune’s 500 List are bankrupt and suffering withdrawal pains from the Obama/Unions fraudulent “Cash for Clunkers” swindle.
An either or situation
Unions will NEVER relax union rules and union rules are steadily killing private companies. Unions are a cancer that must be removed from our economy by the next Congress in order for us to have a chance to survive the damage this bunch from Chicago has done. It’s down to a clear choice: unions or America’s economy. Elect conservatives who will know which to choose.
Where stimulus money went
In spite of empirical evidence that governments consume wealth and never produce any, hundreds of billions of dollars of the so called “Stimulus” package we HAD to have went to governments to help them keep paying their unionized workers.
Those 7 million plus lost jobs you’ve read about have come out of private company payrolls. In contrast governments have increased their collective workforce by 10,000 new hires a month, many in the federal government.
According to Michael Barone, “.. the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession.”
His comments also included pointing out that non-union manufacturing employment has climbed since 1973 by 2 million workers and during the same period union manufacturing employment has fallen by the same 2 million.
Federal laws protect workers from unsafe workplaces, discrimination of all kinds and payroll and pension failures during corporate bankruptcies, so the time is right to finish off the parasitical unions before they kill our economy. The king really has no new suit of clothes and we’ve got to face it.
What have you done to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?
Source: townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2010/02/08/public-sector_unions_bleed_taxpayers_to_help_dems?page=full&comments=true
Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at -17
This day in history February 14
1929: Al Capone, another gangster from Chicago, ordered the murder of rival gangsters in a brutal mass assassination known ever since as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.
Have you read this week’s “Betcha didn’t know this..” page? It’s loaded with interesting little “bite size” items you’re bound to enjoy.
Comments on this or any other Collins Report essay can be sent to kcoachc “at” gmail.com
www.collinsreport.net/