Riiiiight…..SEIU anyone?

Uh-huh. I’ll believe unions obey that law when they find Jimmy Hoffa (the old man not the son the present Teamsters boss) under the end zone at Giants’ stadium.

“They are a management tool, embraced by smart managers.” – oh so you embrace the “Company Unions”? I have no use for those either. Prime example – Kroger and the UFCW. I never could figure out what one receives in benefit when belonging to a union, paying union dues, and making minimum wage stocking shelves at Kroger.

Going off the beaten path – you have the French. “It’s Tuesday! Let’s Strike!”

That’s not true. Federal law prohibits use of union dues to support political candidates.

When I was younger, I strongly was in favor of “right to work” laws. These days, it seems like the issue is rapidly becoming as relevant as buggy whips.

Three hundred years ago, slavery was needed to economically produce the goods and services. One hundred years ago, wage-slaves in large organizations were needed to economically produce goods and services. One hundred years from now, we’ll be back to the era of small crofters.

Computers and the internet are making custom production more affordable; there’s so much waste involved in mass production. We won’t have “jobs” as such; we’ll pretty much be self-employed, or engaged in small partnerships.

Unions make sense when there are massive numbers of employees. They are a management tool, embraced by smart managers. There’s no way to deal with 4,000 employees, but if there’s a union, you can deal with 1 union. Bad unions result from bad management; by treating workers with respect from the start, good managers get good unions – and good unions make good managers look ever better.

The stats being quoted are misleading as well. Jobs aren’t being “created” in RTW states. They’re being “relocated” as companies are discarding their old workforce, people that often have destroyed their health out of loyalty to their employer, and they’re building new facilities with young gullible workforces. And then they complain that they can’t find skilled workers!