A leftist University of Florida history professor named Robert Zieger dutifully lapped up the AFL-CIO’s latest talking points and lambasted the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for its rulings on a handful of high-profile cases this fall.
Of course, Zieger failed to acknowledge that George W. Bush’s labor board has actually done very little to correct the many atrocities of Bill Clinton’s NLRB – which increased union coercive power over employees, entrenched unions in workplaces without the majority support of employees, and allowed for the rampant misuse of forced union dues for politics.
National Right to Work Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason responded to Zieger in this column at the Gainesville Sun:
Despite the histrionics of Zieger and others, Big Labor is indeed winning its overall war against employees who wish to remain union-free. And President Bush's NLRB has sadly been, for the most part, AWOL.
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yeah we're really kicking but in big LABOR
Yeah that’s why unions as a whole have been shrinking year after year …
I’m a baggage handler for a major us airline , my job is unpleasant , and right now if you compare my pay to the other major airlines in the industry I’m dead last , but at least I make more pay and have healthcare compared against the non union guys at the service companies . Have any of you heard of service air ? A contract company , they pay their workers 8.80 an hour , no health care , no travel benefits . I saw some of their workers doing a contract that my company used to have and it was work that I and others used to perform . I saw two men doing the work of what had at a minimum been the work of 4 guys , three in an emergency . They were getting swamped with bags , so many bags , you could tell by looking at the guys their sprit was broken . I even asked one of their workers why they didn’t come work for my company , he mentioned that he had been fired from another company that we contract out to so he was pretty sure we wouldn’t hire him . It made me want to cry seeing these men work so hard for almost nothing .Unions aren’t perfect , but damn , there’s got to be a better way than leaving Americans to the mercy of these corporations that don’t have a heart nor soul .
Is Big Labor Growing?
Bismarck
Membership in labor unions is dropping, but it is certainly not due to any opposition by the NLRB. The opposition comes from workers who are increasingly aware of the problems that monopoly bargaining by arrogant union officials bring.
While union membership continues to decline, the political and financial power of the union dons increases. Because of the massive increases in the level of union dues and compulsory fees levied on workers, unions are able to finance the campaigns of their political lackeys and dictate the positions that their minions take on public policy issues, no matter how harmful those policies are to union members, other workers and the society in general.
Yes, there are some terrible employers. However, the remedy for an abusive and corrupt employer is not an abusive and corrupt union.