I agree that employees of any big outfit can and should lobby management for improvements in conditions and pay without organizing into unions. Labor unions hurt relations because of their bureaucratic structure, their political obligations to other unions, and the tendency of cabals of power-mad leftists to take over and involve the rank-and-file in causes that go against their inclinations.
Unions had their time and place, back at the turn of the century when nobody was going to improve work conditions without an organized effort. Now they're just a money laundering scheme for the lefts political machine.
I agree that employees of any big outfit can and should lobby management for improvements in conditions and pay without organizing into unions. Labor unions hurt relations because of their bureaucratic structure, their political obligations to other unions, and the tendency of cabals of power-mad leftists to take over and involve the rank-and-file in causes that go against their inclinations.
Unions had their time and place, back at the turn of the century when nobody was going to improve work conditions without an organized effort. Now they're just a money laundering scheme for the lefts political machine.
I pretty much agree about their former usefulness, but don't know anything about the money laundering angle.
All anyone has to do to get the low-down on labor unions is watch "On the Waterfront" or a documentary on Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters.