Anti-worker Republicans & Allies Need To Realize They Don't Have A Future!

[thereisnospoon]

Today's Wall Street Journal had an editorial article titled "How Public Unions Exploit the Ruse of 'Official Time'". This article was extremely biased and unfair and unfortunately represents an ideology which is prevalent in America and is wrong and dangerous! The theme of the article is that it posits that "official time" for federal employees is a huge waste in taxpayer spending and should be eliminated or dramatically curtailed; "official time" is merely time that federal employees who are also union members spend on union business. The author of the article, Mallory Factor, highlights this theme in his statement that "the Office of Personnel Management reports that federal employees spent over three million hours on official time in 2010 costing the taxpayers about $137 million in salary and benfit costs". This criticism is without merit, federal union workers have rights and union authorities who work under this classification of "official time" are merely using this time to learn about the problems facing these workers that impinge on these rights and see the affected rights are respected. These union authorities have the right and duty to do this work and the federal government as the employer of federal union workers has the duty to see these workers get their rights of good union representation which this "official time" mechanism provides. Matters concerning these workers involving scheduling, work assignments, compensation, health insurance and other issues impact these workers rights and are important thereby justifying the use federal worker union authorities spending time on them!



Mr. Factor is so uneven handed in this article it makes his position laughable! He seeks to make a big deal that as of July 2011, the Department of Homeland Security had 62 employees working full-time on union activities; what a meaningless criticism the number of work locations of DHS must number at least in the hundreds, for alone there is at least a hundred plus airports across the country which have DHS worksites, sixty-two such employees for all the varied DHS work locations is not unreasonable at all. Mr. Factor offers further support for his thesis by mentioning that in 1998 there was 946 federal employees throughout the entire federal government workforce working full-time on union activity and therefore working under this "official time" classification, this is not a very persuasive point if one considers that there probably was around 150,000 to 200,000 unionized federal workers in the total workforce at that time which produces about a 1 full-time union official to every 150 or 200 union federal workers which a reasonable person shouldn't consider out of line. To consider the extreme ends people like Mr. Factor will go to advance their anti-union agenda one need only examine the latter portion of the article where he says "47" states have "gift clauses" in their constitutions that prohibit government subsidies to private entities his meaning being that this allowing federal workers who are also union officials to work full-time on union business and still get their federal worker pay is essentially a gift from the federal government to its unions and thus should be outlawed; this logic is clearly twisted and nonsensical when an employer enters into a collective bargaining agreement the employer has a duty to see the employees rights covered by the agreement are given to them this providing of "official time" to federal worker union officials is merely part of the federal government employer fulfilling this duty pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement!





The problem with Mr. Factor is a problem that a lot of Republicans and their allies have which is they don't recognize the natural rights of workers, the rights that a person of good virtue would consider that all workers are entitled to. A perfect example of this bad ideology is this Senate candidatie Mr. Akin's response when a person recently asked him publicly if he was anti-union, he didn't say I fully support collective bargaining rights but I think union agreements should be fair to employers as well as employees, no this anti-union candidate essentially said I believe in a system where employers should be free to set the terms of employment for their employees and if an employee doesn't like those terms he is free to seek employment elsewhere. This value or ideology is so off-the-charts bad that someone who holds it should not only not be in public office he or she shouldn't even ever be able to be a candidate for public office in America; the leverage that employers have over an individual employee is enormous and dwarfs that of an employee and jobs aren't a luxury people need a job to live to buy food, shelter and clothing, etc.. This mentality that if workers don't like their employment arrangement too bad hit the road is outrageous and not what the vast majority of Americans think is right. Employers have a civic duty to as much as they can pay a worker a good wage and provide good working conditions and good terms of employment for their workers. Until the people across America, especially wealthy people and executives of big corporation, that hold this aforementioned anti-worker mentality get this that workers count and have rights whether or not listed on a piece of paper and such rights should be respected there is going to be a lot of turmoil and anger in America and the fallout from such affects will often be a real hardship on them!

Democrats only Represent those workers lucky enough to be in an Union, Which is about 19% of the work force.

Wake the fuck up.

Actually just over 8% of the total US workforce is represented by a labor organization. In the public sector that jumps to about 18 or 19%

 

[tjvh]

You see, the problem is one of envy. Joe Schmoe, the private sector worker has seen his income stagnate over the last 30 years and his costs for health care and just plain old daily living go up. Companies no longer offer pensions or pay for health insurance....it's all on him now.

Where as his brother Jack Schmoe....works in the public sector....he still gets a pension that him and his employer share the contributions, he helps pay for his insurance, but his employer still handles most of the burden.

Funny thing is Jack keeps voting Republican, who doesn't give a shit about the workforce and caused the demise of private sector unions and caused the downfall of his own paycheck....

go figure.

Apparently you've forgotten Scott Walker, and Wisconsin... The Taxpayers are the true victims of Union greed, and have tired rewarding people for tenure over performance.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Who the heck is anti workers? Why do you people foolishly try to tell us that if we arent union we aren't working?

The GOP has been anti-worker/pro-employer forbade long, long time. It has LITTLE TO DO with Unions.....it has to do with a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Personally, I don't give a shit if a guy is a ditch digger....he or she deserves a wage that they can survive on and have a wife or husband and kids that they can raise.

What people have forgotten that the "American Dream" is to do just that.....we all realize that everybody can't be entrepreneurs and live at the top.of the food chain.

The vast majority of the people will NEVER be wealthy....they will be people working 40+ hours/week as an employee. THERE Is no reason that our working people like those that I speak of shouldn't be able to afford to live in our society.

Hey.....you don't like unions? Fine....demand that employers treat their employees properly....if they don't do it voluntarily? Fuck it....bring on the unions.

No..The ditch digger needs to do what he can to get out of the ditch. Perhaps learn to operate the equipment that digs the ditch so he does not have to do it by hand. Learn a skill. THAT is how one increases their earning potential.
Or how about this...Go to school, Learn business, buy a couple pieces of equipment and OWN the ditch digging business!!!!! Idea?
\You pro union people are either sitting around waiting for "the man" to give you something. Or you are screaming about how you are getting cheated out of what you "believe" you deserve.
Newsflash...We stopped listening long ago.

 

[Steelplate]

Who the heck is anti workers? Why do you people foolishly try to tell us that if we arent union we aren't working?

The GOP has been anti-worker/pro-employer forbade long, long time. It has LITTLE TO DO with Unions.....it has to do with a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Personally, I don't give a shit if a guy is a ditch digger....he or she deserves a wage that they can survive on and have a wife or husband and kids that they can raise.

What people have forgotten that the "American Dream" is to do just that.....we all realize that everybody can't be entrepreneurs and live at the top.of the food chain.

The vast majority of the people will NEVER be wealthy....they will be people working 40+ hours/week as an employee. THERE Is no reason that our working people like those that I speak of shouldn't be able to afford to live in our society.

Hey.....you don't like unions? Fine....demand that employers treat their employees properly....if they don't do it voluntarily? Fuck it....bring on the unions.

No..The ditch digger needs to do what he can to get out of the ditch. Perhaps learn to operate the equipment that digs the ditch so he does not have to do it by hand. Learn a skill. THAT is how one increases their earning potential.
Or how about this...Go to school, Learn business, buy a couple pieces of equipment and OWN the ditch digging business!!!!! Idea?
\You pro union people are either sitting around waiting for "the man" to give you something. Or you are screaming about how you are getting cheated out of what you "believe" you deserve.
Newsflash...We stopped listening long ago.

I see, same old right wing talking points.

Doesn't matter that half the country can't afford to live here without a "Gubmint" handout, doesn't matter that with all the "cost saving" that outsourcing and automation provides business....it doesn't get any less expensive to live here.

You people are insanely brainwashed.

Yeah....you stopped listening a long time ago....a little over 30 years ago....and look where our country is today because of it. You've been sold a bill of goods called "trickle down" economics....Face up to your mistake in believing that bullshit.

Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way, the quality of life for the American people drop precipitously, and the folks that were already wealthy to begin with pay less into the system and get, ohhhh...what was the number? about 600% more in personal wealth and income out of it over the same span of time.

Why in the hell don't you guys understand? At the very least, you should have the critical thinking skills to QUESTION the validity of such a system. At a minimum, it just plan doesn't work....at the worst....it's a system of class warfare designed to give the wealthy dominion over everyone else. I think the reality is somewhere in between.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The GOP has been anti-worker/pro-employer forbade long, long time. It has LITTLE TO DO with Unions.....it has to do with a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Personally, I don't give a shit if a guy is a ditch digger....he or she deserves a wage that they can survive on and have a wife or husband and kids that they can raise.

What people have forgotten that the "American Dream" is to do just that.....we all realize that everybody can't be entrepreneurs and live at the top.of the food chain.

The vast majority of the people will NEVER be wealthy....they will be people working 40+ hours/week as an employee. THERE Is no reason that our working people like those that I speak of shouldn't be able to afford to live in our society.

Hey.....you don't like unions? Fine....demand that employers treat their employees properly....if they don't do it voluntarily? Fuck it....bring on the unions.

No..The ditch digger needs to do what he can to get out of the ditch. Perhaps learn to operate the equipment that digs the ditch so he does not have to do it by hand. Learn a skill. THAT is how one increases their earning potential.
Or how about this...Go to school, Learn business, buy a couple pieces of equipment and OWN the ditch digging business!!!!! Idea?
\You pro union people are either sitting around waiting for "the man" to give you something. Or you are screaming about how you are getting cheated out of what you "believe" you deserve.
Newsflash...We stopped listening long ago.

I see, same old right wing talking points.

Doesn't matter that half the country can't afford to live here without a "Gubmint" handout, doesn't matter that with all the "cost saving" that outsourcing and automation provides business....it doesn't get any less expensive to live here.

You people are insanely brainwashed.

Yeah....you stopped listening a long time ago....a little over 30 years ago....and look where our country is today because of it. You've been sold a bill of goods called "trickle down" economics....Face up to your mistake in believing that bullshit.

Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way, the quality of life for the American people drop precipitously, and the folks that were already wealthy to begin with pay less into the system and get, ohhhh...what was the number? about 600% more in personal wealth and income out of it over the same span of time.

Why in the hell don't you guys understand? At the very least, you should have the critical thinking skills to QUESTION the validity of such a system. At a minimum, it just plan doesn't work....at the worst....it's a system of class warfare designed to give the wealthy dominion over everyone else. I think the reality is somewhere in between.

Talking points? Umm nope.
This is based on the belief that each individual should be permitted without interference to reach the highest potential to the best of his or her ability.
In what ways has the American standard of living or as you say, quality of life, "dropped precipitously"?...

You wrote....."Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way"...
So in your estimation expanding organized labor would counteract this "problem"?
The only thing to understand is to defeat unionism. Unions are businesses which create problems for business and workers. Unions COST jobs. They do this be making the cost of labor so expensive such that the unionized company becomes non-competitive with other firms doing the same type work.

 

[Katzndogz]

The biggest problems unions have right now is a public backlash that's building and growing. Unions have gotten so big and so powerful that they have become what they started out fighting against. The public doesn't go out and protest unions. They vote against union interests. They refuse to buy union made products. They find dozens of little ways of making their displeasure known. They make Toyota the biggest carmaker in the US.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

The only true worker is a public sector union "worker"..............Comical

 

[The Rabbi]

UNIONS scare the shit out of fascists.

A quick study of FASCISTS GOVERNMENTS is all the evidence one needs to know how very true that is.

And now we note how similarly the GOP operates regarding unionism compared such wonderful FASCIST governments as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Modern China.

What the GOP really and truly most wants is FACISM by another name.

Oy vey...
Unions? Unions are collectives which allow for the group to be more important than the individual. Unions insure that merit is ignored and the collective is similarly compensated without regard to ability or performance of any individual. In fact unions frown upon productivity and swear off outstanding performance.
Unions breed mediocrity and complacency.
Unions by and large are despised.

A good worker is a valued employee. He doesnt need a union protecting him. Therefore unions protect mediocre workers,not good ones.

 

[Steelplate]

No..The ditch digger needs to do what he can to get out of the ditch. Perhaps learn to operate the equipment that digs the ditch so he does not have to do it by hand. Learn a skill. THAT is how one increases their earning potential.
Or how about this...Go to school, Learn business, buy a couple pieces of equipment and OWN the ditch digging business!!!!! Idea?
\You pro union people are either sitting around waiting for "the man" to give you something. Or you are screaming about how you are getting cheated out of what you "believe" you deserve.
Newsflash...We stopped listening long ago.

I see, same old right wing talking points.

Doesn't matter that half the country can't afford to live here without a "Gubmint" handout, doesn't matter that with all the "cost saving" that outsourcing and automation provides business....it doesn't get any less expensive to live here.

You people are insanely brainwashed.

Yeah....you stopped listening a long time ago....a little over 30 years ago....and look where our country is today because of it. You've been sold a bill of goods called "trickle down" economics....Face up to your mistake in believing that bullshit.

Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way, the quality of life for the American people drop precipitously, and the folks that were already wealthy to begin with pay less into the system and get, ohhhh...what was the number? about 600% more in personal wealth and income out of it over the same span of time.

Why in the hell don't you guys understand? At the very least, you should have the critical thinking skills to QUESTION the validity of such a system. At a minimum, it just plan doesn't work....at the worst....it's a system of class warfare designed to give the wealthy dominion over everyone else. I think the reality is somewhere in between.

Talking points? Umm nope.
This is based on the belief that each individual should be permitted without interference to reach the highest potential to the best of his or her ability.
In what ways has the American standard of living or as you say, quality of life, "dropped precipitously"?...

You wrote....."Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way"...
So in your estimation expanding organized labor would counteract this "problem"?
The only thing to understand is to defeat unionism. Unions are businesses which create problems for business and workers. Unions COST jobs. They do this be making the cost of labor so expensive such that the unionized company becomes non-competitive with other firms doing the same type work.

yes, oh brainwashed one.....talking points.

I said in my OP....either the private sector has to start paying more, bring the cost for their products/services to consumers down, or yeah...bring back the unions to force them to.

How has the quality of life dropped precipitously? Are you fucking blind, man? many people who USED to have decent paying jobs now either unemployed or forced to take shitty, dead end jobs that pay next to nothing and no benefits.

Maybe that's your vision of America....grown people forced to work at TJMaxx or some convenience store, barely surviving, nothing in their savings, nothing for their kid's education, nothing for retirement and God forbid they get sick or injured.

You guys have a vision of America much like the Banana Republics in Central America. The wealthy holds all the cards, wipes out honest competition before it can even get started, and the workforce has no choice but to accept their shitty wages or starve.

Why do you hate the American people?

 

[thereisnospoon]

I see, same old right wing talking points.

Doesn't matter that half the country can't afford to live here without a "Gubmint" handout, doesn't matter that with all the "cost saving" that outsourcing and automation provides business....it doesn't get any less expensive to live here.

You people are insanely brainwashed.

Yeah....you stopped listening a long time ago....a little over 30 years ago....and look where our country is today because of it. You've been sold a bill of goods called "trickle down" economics....Face up to your mistake in believing that bullshit.

Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way, the quality of life for the American people drop precipitously, and the folks that were already wealthy to begin with pay less into the system and get, ohhhh...what was the number? about 600% more in personal wealth and income out of it over the same span of time.

Why in the hell don't you guys understand? At the very least, you should have the critical thinking skills to QUESTION the validity of such a system. At a minimum, it just plan doesn't work....at the worst....it's a system of class warfare designed to give the wealthy dominion over everyone else. I think the reality is somewhere in between.

Talking points? Umm nope.
This is based on the belief that each individual should be permitted without interference to reach the highest potential to the best of his or her ability.
In what ways has the American standard of living or as you say, quality of life, "dropped precipitously"?...

You wrote....."Since Reagan implemented that huge lie, we've seen our debt exponentially increase, our ability to pay for that debt decrease in a HUGE way"...
So in your estimation expanding organized labor would counteract this "problem"?
The only thing to understand is to defeat unionism. Unions are businesses which create problems for business and workers. Unions COST jobs. They do this be making the cost of labor so expensive such that the unionized company becomes non-competitive with other firms doing the same type work.

yes, oh brainwashed one.....talking points.

I said in my OP....either the private sector has to start paying more, bring the cost for their products/services to consumers down, or yeah...bring back the unions to force them to.

How has the quality of life dropped precipitously? Are you fucking blind, man? many people who USED to have decent paying jobs now either unemployed or forced to take shitty, dead end jobs that pay next to nothing and no benefits.

Maybe that's your vision of America....grown people forced to work at TJMaxx or some convenience store, barely surviving, nothing in their savings, nothing for their kid's education, nothing for retirement and God forbid they get sick or injured.

You guys have a vision of America much like the Banana Republics in Central America. The wealthy holds all the cards, wipes out honest competition before it can even get started, and the workforce has no choice but to accept their shitty wages or starve.

Why do you hate the American people?

No fucking body is fucking forced to take a fucking shitty fucking job for fuck's sake.
On a serious note.
Is it your assertion that people should be paid union scale or higher wages even though they have few or no marketable skills?
Is it MY fault there are so many skilled occupations going unfilled because there are so many people who lack the skills to do those jobs?
Cramming union labor down everyone's throats..everyone loses.
Why do you hate this country?
Oh, indentured servitude is illegal. A worker is free to seek employment anywhere they wish.
In other words, if they don't like the conditions, they may move on to something more suitable.
Higher wages are earned, not given. They come with skill and experience. That's just the way it is.
Oh...this idea that Reagan destroyed the unions is patently false.
Union membership began it's decline when Reagan was still making movies. So please, who is regurgitating talking points?

 

[Amazed]

UNIONS scare the shit out of fascists.

A quick study of FASCISTS GOVERNMENTS is all the evidence one needs to know how very true that is.

And now we note how similarly the GOP operates regarding unionism compared such wonderful FASCIST governments as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Modern China.

What the GOP really and truly most wants is FACISM by another name.

Oy vey...
Unions? Unions are collectives which allow for the group to be more important than the individual. Unions insure that merit is ignored and the collective is similarly compensated without regard to ability or performance of any individual. In fact unions frown upon productivity and swear off outstanding performance.
Unions breed mediocrity and complacency.
Unions by and large are despised.

LOL...it kills you doesn't it?

The stupidity and abject lack of kniwledge shown by most lefty's.

 

[Avatar4321]

UNIONS scare the shit out of fascists.

A quick study of FASCISTS GOVERNMENTS is all the evidence one needs to know how very true that is.

And now we note how similarly the GOP operates regarding unionism compared such wonderful FASCIST governments as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Modern China.

What the GOP really and truly most wants is FACISM by another name.

Unions don't scare fascists. Fascists use unions by pretending to be their friend to get power. and then when they get power they kill the useful idiots.

 

[sealybobo]

Today's Wall Street Journal had an editorial article titled "How Public Unions Exploit the Ruse of 'Official Time'". This article was extremely biased and unfair and unfortunately represents an ideology which is prevalent in America and is wrong and dangerous! The theme of the article is that it posits that "official time" for federal employees is a huge waste in taxpayer spending and should be eliminated or dramatically curtailed; "official time" is merely time that federal employees who are also union members spend on union business. The author of the article, Mallory Factor, highlights this theme in his statement that "the Office of Personnel Management reports that federal employees spent over three million hours on official time in 2010 costing the taxpayers about $137 million in salary and benfit costs". This criticism is without merit, federal union workers have rights and union authorities who work under this classification of "official time" are merely using this time to learn about the problems facing these workers that impinge on these rights and see the affected rights are respected. These union authorities have the right and duty to do this work and the federal government as the employer of federal union workers has the duty to see these workers get their rights of good union representation which this "official time" mechanism provides. Matters concerning these workers involving scheduling, work assignments, compensation, health insurance and other issues impact these workers rights and are important thereby justifying the use federal worker union authorities spending time on them!



Mr. Factor is so uneven handed in this article it makes his position laughable! He seeks to make a big deal that as of July 2011, the Department of Homeland Security had 62 employees working full-time on union activities; what a meaningless criticism the number of work locations of DHS must number at least in the hundreds, for alone there is at least a hundred plus airports across the country which have DHS worksites, sixty-two such employees for all the varied DHS work locations is not unreasonable at all. Mr. Factor offers further support for his thesis by mentioning that in 1998 there was 946 federal employees throughout the entire federal government workforce working full-time on union activity and therefore working under this "official time" classification, this is not a very persuasive point if one considers that there probably was around 150,000 to 200,000 unionized federal workers in the total workforce at that time which produces about a 1 full-time union official to every 150 or 200 union federal workers which a reasonable person shouldn't consider out of line. To consider the extreme ends people like Mr. Factor will go to advance their anti-union agenda one need only examine the latter portion of the article where he says "47" states have "gift clauses" in their constitutions that prohibit government subsidies to private entities his meaning being that this allowing federal workers who are also union officials to work full-time on union business and still get their federal worker pay is essentially a gift from the federal government to its unions and thus should be outlawed; this logic is clearly twisted and nonsensical when an employer enters into a collective bargaining agreement the employer has a duty to see the employees rights covered by the agreement are given to them this providing of "official time" to federal worker union officials is merely part of the federal government employer fulfilling this duty pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement!





The problem with Mr. Factor is a problem that a lot of Republicans and their allies have which is they don't recognize the natural rights of workers, the rights that a person of good virtue would consider that all workers are entitled to. A perfect example of this bad ideology is this Senate candidatie Mr. Akin's response when a person recently asked him publicly if he was anti-union, he didn't say I fully support collective bargaining rights but I think union agreements should be fair to employers as well as employees, no this anti-union candidate essentially said I believe in a system where employers should be free to set the terms of employment for their employees and if an employee doesn't like those terms he is free to seek employment elsewhere. This value or ideology is so off-the-charts bad that someone who holds it should not only not be in public office he or she shouldn't even ever be able to be a candidate for public office in America; the leverage that employers have over an individual employee is enormous and dwarfs that of an employee and jobs aren't a luxury people need a job to live to buy food, shelter and clothing, etc.. This mentality that if workers don't like their employment arrangement too bad hit the road is outrageous and not what the vast majority of Americans think is right. Employers have a civic duty to as much as they can pay a worker a good wage and provide good working conditions and good terms of employment for their workers. Until the people across America, especially wealthy people and executives of big corporation, that hold this aforementioned anti-worker mentality get this that workers count and have rights whether or not listed on a piece of paper and such rights should be respected there is going to be a lot of turmoil and anger in America and the fallout from such affects will often be a real hardship on them!

Trump said the right things to get the American workers to vote for him. He conned them.

Remember when Republicans attacked unions right before they sent all those good paying jobs overseas? That's because corporations don't want to pay union wages.

Here is another example of how Republicans are anti labor. Uber has been cutting the pay of their drivers steadily ever since they started that business. It used to pay good now it pays shit.

So who do Republicans side with the drivers or the corporation?

Tomi Lahren slammed for insulting striking Uber, Lyft drivers: "Half the cars reek of body odor'

Her tweet accused drivers of being slovenly and foul-smelling, claiming that they work in their pajamas and have cars that “reek of body odor.” She also criticized them for seeking higher pay and a larger share of fares.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Uber and Lyft do not hire employees. All drivers are independent contractors. As such, unionists cannot get their hands on the drivers to organize them.
Unions are mere historical artifacts. No employer wants to deal with the drama unions create. No employer wants to be forced or more accurately coerced into dealing with a business with whom they have no interest in doing so. No employer wants to pay inflated above market wage rates just to line the pockets of grossly overpaid union delegates and union bosses.

 

[thereisnospoon]

UNIONS scare the shit out of fascists.

A quick study of FASCISTS GOVERNMENTS is all the evidence one needs to know how very true that is.

And now we note how similarly the GOP operates regarding unionism compared such wonderful FASCIST governments as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Modern China.

What the GOP really and truly most wants is FACISM by another name.

Oy vey...
Unions? Unions are collectives which allow for the group to be more important than the individual. Unions insure that merit is ignored and the collective is similarly compensated without regard to ability or performance of any individual. In fact unions frown upon productivity and swear off outstanding performance.
Unions breed mediocrity and complacency.
Unions by and large are despised.

LOL...it kills you doesn't it?

The stupidity and abject lack of kniwledge shown by most lefty's.

To whom are you replying?