By Emma Karlin, staff writer
Over the past four decades union membership in America has fallen from about 35% to single digits. It would be still lower if it were not for “agency shop” laws that force government employees to either join a union or suffer harassment. In most instance workers cannot and will not be hired unless they agree to join a union.
Now after years of watching their dues go directly to liberal Democrats with little pretense of fairness toward other political ideas, workers have fled private industry unions and brought law suits against public employee unions to stop these scams. Some of these suits have had an effect.
While this year’s Gallup survey actually holds some good news for unions in that public approval of unions is up 4 points to 52% that low level should be of little consolation to the Democrats’ self- avowed piggy banks. It represents a drop of ten points in the last ten years.
Small union membership means smaller union donations to Democrats.
In just the 18 months from January 2011 to June 2012 unions sent Democrats 20% fewer dollars compared to past cycles. The $10 million Wisconsin unions spent and the untold millions that were spent for them by Democrat PACs in June’s failed attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker were a waste of time money and good will toward unions. That drain on union war chests has created funding problems for Barack Obama and down ballot Democrats.
In Texas Hold’em terms, in this election cycle America’s unions are being forced to go “all in.” They must bet the mortgage money that they can help Obama win, Harry Reid hold the Senate and Nancy Pelosi regain the Speakership of the House. This is clearly an attempt to draw an “inside straight” that doesn’t look to be attainable.
A professor of Industrial Relations summed up the unions situation by saying, “This is in many ways the last gasp of the labor movement politically. The irony is that they need a victory by the White House and the Democrats to rebound, but on the other hand, because they’re so slim on resources and energies, and their public image is so tarnished, they’re limited in what they can do.”
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This is just a temporary problem should obama be re-elected, and might even be resolved by entrenched rinos without obama. The plan is to forcibly unionize, without any vote, (and take dues), any one worker or group if the company or industry they are working for gets any kind of government check.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/22/factor-shadowbosses-planning-to-unionize-you
There are still enough entrenched traitors of both parties in Washington that would think nothing of doing this, which is why the TEA party is so important and was ignored by the elites at the RNC.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
As a conservative and someone who owes my salary, pension and medical to union membership, I have to ask what you want in place of unions…. low paying jobs? No middle class? Trusting that business will do the right thing for their workers? How much do you get paid Ron?
I was forced to join a truckers union years ago to do business in certain states. I quit the minute I was able, and worked as a free man. What I want in their place is a system where people prove their worth, and rise to the level of their competence, with an incentive to better oneself to earn more. What I make currently is irrelevant. What is important is that I know I earn my money, and I will make more than the slug next to me not pulling his weight. I am a capitalist, not a communist union member. I recognize and celebrate the unique talents of American individuals, not rubber stamp drone puppets being run by the Communist Party.
You mean the kind of people that resort to name calling rather than discuss the facts on the table? That kind if coward is nothing to be afraid of, Bill. They immediately prove their intellectual vapidity with their feeble insults.