It could take years for the federal regulator Osha to set new heat rules as excessive temperatures are killing Americans at work
It could take years for the federal regulator Osha to set new heat rules as excessive temperatures are killing Americans at work
Midwest. People aren’t hostile to unions, they just don’t see the point because nothing ever gets better and the union contracts are weak.
And I also speak from experience when I say weak sellout unions are better than no unions. Right-to-work has been shown to lower union membership, lower wages, reduce the number of union victories, and ultimately reduce the number of workplaces represented by unions entirely. We can see before-and-after, we can compare across state lines, we can even look at cities on two sides of a right-to-work border and directly compare. The results are clear: right-to-work is bad for workers.
You can have the last word.
Well, weak unions are the result of apathetic membership (as are flailing imperialist republics). I might posit that after some attrition, the remaining core of true believers might be more effective by drawing a more focused, sympathetic to the cause crowd, especially if they can maintain exclusive representative status. I’ve been nearly 3 decades affiliated with one union or another. Some of it energetically, much of it apathetically, all of it mandatory. I concede RTW is bad for unions as things are, I’m less convinced some singular union deserves a monopoly on my fealty and tribute, irrespective of how it’s administrated or how well they deliver. I realize that doesn’t jive with the “one team” ethos of socialism. Hopefully we find common ground elsewhere. Anyway, I could go on forever, this is something I’m well reconciled with in my own worldview, and that comes from a place of eternal gratitude for those who literally shed blood for how good I have it today. I’ve taken this way past even tangentially related to the post, for that I apologize. Kudos to us for not devolving into ad hominem and bad faith, maybe there’s hope for this Internet thing yet.
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