Yes there will be business that treat their employee's poorly. There will also be employers that treat their employee's great. This is a style argument. Do we want a world where (metaphor here) all parents are required to raise their children a specific way, you can't do more, can't do less. you must raise them a certain way. OR do we have the freedom as parents to raise our children the way we see fit.
Yes there is a major difference with some companies between a parent and children compared to employer and employee. Especially more common in large employers were people can truly become a number, but their are also similarities, of which I have choose use for the purpose of the metaphor.
In the end, with right to work, it is us the people who have a right to work for good employers, the right to excel and bargain for compensation when we provide value, and if they don't compensate us, we take our value we can provide a business to someone else.
My mother was a manager for the state for 35 years, I cant begin to count all the times she had to keep staff that would blatantly tell her "I don't have to come in at 8, you cant fire me". her staff was 3 times the size it should have been because she, as a manager was not allowed to manage. So right to work moves us away from Cuba and more towards opportunity.
In Cuba, for example, there is a person assigned by the state to have the role of taking faxes of the fax machine and distributing the fax. When they are sick, faxes are not distributed. Because the organizing body says only fax people can distribute faxes. This is a true story. So faxes will be un answered, not processed. And processors cannot do their job either. The pay sucks, the system does not work, there is no way to move up.
My father, Brother, Mother were all in unions. Unions have been around for hundreds of years. The concept is great. What we have today is corruption at the highest level in unions. I remember a meeting a co-worker was in with the AFLCIO where they were trying to work this deal for all members to purchase xyz through the union. It was a shady deal, do shady for them. The AFLCIO guy who was championing the deal later that day said to, I will call him Mr Partner, said to him, "If this deal doesn't go through, your gonna find my body floating in the f(explicit) river" being 100% truthful. The deal didn't go through, he was never heard of again to my knowledge. There is massive power and money in orgs like the AFLCIO, all members are numbers. You have an ID.
As a glazier, the union now is acting as a staffing agency. No you don't even actually work for a company, the union places you on jobs. Apparently based on seniority, but in realty based on how quite you stay, and if you play along with their rules on their crap dental which is a joke, and the medicaless insurance. If I had the right to work, since I am good at what I do, safe working, understand what the customer wants and why they pay money. If I could work for a business that had the flexibility to reward value, I could be rewarded. I don't have that choice. So the business can excel and neither can I. I might as well be in cuba. At least it would be warm.
I don't want to be force to join a union. I want the right to bargain for my self, prove my self. The flexibility to receive higher pay based on the value I provide the company I work at.
I have seen first hand how unions take care of you, for example when you are injured as a glazier. They put you on a desk job, that way you are working, then they fire you, claiming you are not good at it. They navigate the greed train like all other greedy people. They only care about you because they use us to gain more power.
You bring up Stalin, China? and associate them with Republican/Tea Party as an argument that they are similar? really, so forcing someone to be in a union if they are a glazier, or a teacher is different? keep drinking the Kool-Aid
Scientists and engineers are more likely to accept facts over ideology given that a not doing so will destroy a career. Most scientists are Democrats or Independents (only about 7% are Republican). They may appear to lean left but are just realists, rejecting groups that choose not to acknowledge facts.
employees are free to leave ??? what is that all about.
There are not enough jobs for everyone. So what you
are saying is TOUGH STUFF employee take and like it
because you have no choice. The employer has the ability
to TOTALLY treat his employees any damn way he wants.
So.... employee just shut up and deal with it.
NICE............... yeppers that is what we want
america to be all about.... at least from your narrow minded comment.
I don't have the answer to all of the "class gap" problems, but I will say this. ALEC needs to be busted wide open and exposed for what they really are.
I know I have done my best to expose them in every forum I have posted on time and time again.
I was amazed to learn how many people had never heard of them, on the other hand, they have gone out of their way to exist under the radar for many years.
They claimed to be bipartisan which is a joke, because it is a republican anti consumer lobbying outfit as you well know.
We must fight fire with fire.
Any and EVERY legislator that votes with ALEC legislation MUST be exposed BIG TIME, especially before election time.
Every voter MUST be informed who these CREEPS are and their dirty laundry be hung out for all to see.
It didn't take long for some of the biggest corporations to run like roaches the minute they were exposed, so exposing these law makers should be job #1.
I don't know of a single person who admires ALEC at least publicly, and to tie these lawmakers with them should go a long way to defeating them in the next election.
Any new candidate running for any public office should be vetted and exposed for all the public to see.
ALEC lists them self as a charity or some kind of non profit and the IRS needs to bust them wide open. It's the only way I know how to defeat them.
I understand there are other organizations that are engaging in the same practice that need to be exposed, but ALEC needs to be target #1, and any law maker that endorses their legislation, must be exposed to their constituents as much as possible, and as soon as possible.
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