Yes, there was great prosperity and economic growth.
So the Repub vision for the economy is stagnant wages, no middle class, and slow economic growth? Just be glad you have a job? How sad.
There was great prosperity? Do you know the word "prosperity" comes from the word prosperous; meaning accumulating great wealth and having more than enough material items? I don't recall unions doing that.
The Republican vision is for people to get off their ass and make something of themselves. No more turning nuts onto bolts and getting paid $50,000 a year. Those days are long gone and they are never coming back. Your only two choices are hope and pray somebody hires you to do monkey jobs and pays you great wages, or learn a trade or profession and MAKE YOURSELF worth more money.
That's the Republicans vision.
Thats funny, trump keeps saying he is going to bring manufacturing back.
Unemployment is low, people are working. The jobs just are not so good without unions.
Well, would you rather have jobs "not so good" or no jobs at all? That's the only two choices you have.
Your comment reminds me of something that happened to me years ago. One of our customers makes crates. They make crates the size of suitcases to crates the size of tractor-trailers. We delivered those crates to companies that were moving out of state or out of the country.
Whenever possible, I would try to learn more by starting a discussion about the move with the supervisor, the company owner, and even the workers.
In most cases, the company had to leave because of the unions. So I would ask the workers if they ever considered meeting the company demands in order to keep their jobs? They said they would never consider it. The union convinced them that the company was only trying to take advantage of them, or that the union would find them another union job so it didn't matter. Let the company close down. Who cares if they didn't play ball with the union employees?
Well, they all lost their jobs, and the union more than likely didn't find them squat. So in the end, they lost and the company still survived.
I'm sorry, but I just don't understand that logic.