People think that Collective bargaining is just the right to put a group together & bargain as a group, not true. Collective Bargaining means workers have to join a Union if they want to work. In the Public sector it gives Unions a monopoly & control of all government paid jobs.
I don’t think forcing a company to hire through a Union, taking their right to choose who will work for them, taking the right to terminate unproductive employees, taking the right to pay more productive employees more is even anything that could possibly be legal using any intelligent thought process. It’s ownership rights of the company given to Unions who don’t have any investment in the company, no ownership at all. It’s insane.
But when it comes to public tax paid jobs it’s even more insane and wrought with inevitable corruption.
Unions have the power, the workers don’t and the elected officials don’t. Unions have completely denied votes by members on merit pay, wouldn’t even allow members they are SUPPOSED to represent to vote on a proposal! Tell me that’s WORKERS RIGHTS? That’s Union Control, PERIOD. That’s not even the worst of it. Unions force government workers to pay around $1000 a month each, which means for every 1000 workers they get a million dollars and there are hundreds of thousands of workers. They take this money and use it to help politicians, usually Democrats get elected. Those politicians then turn around and make deals giving much higher than market wages, and worse than that give up the ability to fire bad workers, especially ugly in teachers case this sticks kids with teachers without incentive to do a good job. They can’t get paid more for doing a good job and in 2 years they gain tenure & can’t be fired for cause at all. THAT is the BIG problem with our public school system. That is what Union control over government jobs creates. Generates huge amounts of money they bribe politicians with. The tax payers loose, the kids loose, the workers use their right to choose representation or not to be represented. Those Unions don’t even allow teachers secret ballots.
Result?
Government Corruption, officials bribed by Unions & their guys gain huge support from workers, most of whom don’t want their money spent that way.
Control of Government jobs by corrupt Unions, they bribe officials & get about what they want costing the tax payers and corrupting the system as well as taking representation away from voters
lower quality output; especially insidious in teachers who don’t do a good job teaching kids
higher costs; including over payment & extravagant benefits like Cadillac health plans & extravagant retirement benefits that go on until the worker dies costing millions.
These costs is exactly what is bankrupting many states. They shouldn’t have been allowed because it’s obvious they were not sustainable, but the bribery greased the wheels for these insane benefits that the economy simply can’t support even in the best of times.
It’s obvious to me and to anyone with a functioning brain I’d say, that giving Unions the government support to remove ownership rights of a company and give them to a Union with no ownership in the company at all, isn’t anything that should have ever been even considered. It’s a taking of ownership which is obviously not fair, no different than just stealing part of the land your home sits on without paying for it. BUT that pales in comparison to the wrong that’s created by legally binding governments to give their power over government jobs over to Unions. It’s just amazingly corrupt.
When people understand even part of this information the poling is for what governor Walker is doing by nearly 2 to 1. And it should be for his actions by a much wider margin.
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People Just Don’t Understand Collective Bargaining Does The Media Need To Do A Better Job Defining These Terms?
Posted on March 4, 2011.
Thanks for a great post!
Union Members are like Parasites to our tax payers indeed.
People don’t understand this. Tax payers need to educate themselves about how these unions operate. They force people to pay them to work….. Whether you are a union member or not, you have to at tleast pay a “Fair Share” to work, unless the state has a “Right to Work” law. Unions HATE Right to Work laws because those laws take money out of their pockets.
Collective bargaining gives individual workers the ability to join forces to negotiate with powerful corporate and government interests. Your post is typical corporate propaganda.
I believe the media is perpetuating the confusion surrounding Scott Walker’s bill. It only further diminishes what is left of their crediblity.
Scott Walkers bill leaves collective bargaining for wages in tact, and also calls for union dues to be >>>optional<<< and not >>>mandatory<<<. In addition it calls for a secret ballot vote by union members every year to decide whether to maintain or disband the union itself.
Is it the job of the media to educate the public?
No – it is the job of the people to educate themselves. The media’s job is to report the news and happenings, and to get the news to the masses – if they had to educate the public as well then they would have two-hour newscasts.
Besides, that would make them teachers, and they would not be able to have the income they currently have because idiots like Governor Walker would come to rape them of any rights and then take more when the economy sucked. They don’t want that.
The Unions will never admit to the Public that they demand 80% of the Budget here in NY State. They prefer to show children in their ads and blame the greedy taxpayers who pay the highest taxes in the nation. It’s always how someone else can afford more for the children, and never any mention of 100K pensions that are worth $4 million to you.
The Public doesn’t understand the issue. Look at the Question asked by Huffington Post. Not one mention of how unions take dues and give them to Dems. Same people who howl whenever a Lobbyist pays a Republican and ends up with a contract. They are the exact same thing.
Your premise is flawed. Collective bargaining is simply a group of employees who have gone through the steps to elect an entity to represent them. It can be a national union, or it can be an independent organization. In most states, there is no obligation to join a union. Pretty much all of the rest of your post is just subjective. Collective bargaining does not mean anything other than what is covered under the guidelines from the NLRB (which, coincidentally specifically exempts local and state government employees from the federal right to collective bargaining). Those regulations do not say anything about running closed shops, which you are referring to. Those are governed purely through state by state laws. Some have them, some don’t.
If you’re going to argue against collective bargaining, at least use factual arguments, not biased stuff like that.
Amen !! Well said… No one “owes me a job”….it is up to
me and a “Real Work Ethic” that keeps me employed by someone….
It would be “counter-productive” for a Company to get rid of
“Good Workers”….( cause we are Difficult to find….and other Companies
would want to hire us)….That is how “Good Companies” Operate…..
and succeed.
…. Yes, because it appears you are the one who doesn’t understand.
the NRA is comparable to a union!