My wife has been receiving mailings from SEUI every month, for quite sometime and she is not a union member..........but the hospital she works at has a Union and some people belong.
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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
BTW the big problem is not unions alone, the problem is the fact that a lot of businesses moved out of the country to china. Don't give me the line that unions were the sole cause of that. Some states do not have unions such as Idaho where it is a right to work and they don't have them. Boise could have been the next manufacturing hub of the country but no they had to go to china.
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The problem with Unions is not the members, it is the people who run the unions. The Teamsters and the Central States Pension Fund did wonderful things with their members dues and pension proceeds. All it takes to gets non-union employees on a Union Job around here is padding the palm of Union, State and City Officials.
Big Business moved out of the country to China and Mexico because those people that represent us in Washington, DC made it advantageous for US Companies to move their facilities outside the US through Tax Incentives, Subsidies, Regulation and Tariffs.
The EPA is notorious for making domestic production non-profitable and not cost effective. Because of the EPA strong arm tactics anything that has some environmental hazard involved is sent elsewhere to produce. The EPA is now inching its way into your home and making it unaffordable to work on homes of a certain age.
Home Depot and Lowe's are allowed to be a wholesale distributor, while also providing service/installation for the same products. 20-30 years ago that would not have been allowed to happen. Why aren't the Unions picketing HD and Lowe's?
Big companies like GE see the US Economy has limited growth potential and see that countries like China and India are an untapped so they are moving their resources in that direction.
There are so many directions to point blame, but I don't have enough fingers on my hands and feet to accomplish the task.