GM Strike

JIMNLIN wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

JIMNLIN wrote:
Yeah this is a issue in all unions as unions are smart enough to know which party will support unions/members and which party and their supporters want to do away with them.

Reading this thread is a good example of that.

How does it help US jobs of we have open borders for workers from foreign countries, more free trade agreements, and lower tariffs on countries we already have huge trade discrepancies with? These are policies of certain political party that most unions support and will have a negative impact on US jobs. It may seem that they look like they support unions by what they say, but some of their actions and policies prove otherwise.

Unions protect members in many ways such as seniority protection programs...health care programs....retirement programs...on the job training programs....wage protection programs....others benificail to the employee.
Political parties have their own agenda which generally back the company or back the employee.

Companies spend millions every year on anti union programs and supporting political canadates that will fight for them when they reach Washington or the state capitals.

Unions also spend millions every year and during elections supporting politicals that will fight for them.

Threads like this will not change anyones opinions on politics or unions.
Everyone is biased. So happens I'm biased for the american worker that belongs to a union or the american non union worker.

1. None of that answered my question about how it help US jobs if we have open borders for workers from foreign countries, more free trade agreements, and lower tariffs on countries we already have huge trade discrepancies with? Sometimes people are focused on short term entitlement promises that they lose sight of the long term.

2. I understand that you are influenced by union propaganda. I was too at one point. But some of what they say is not reality. Some of it is scare tactics to keep the "us versus them" status quo which keeps them relevant. They have to create this false fear that the company and politicians are out to get you and they are your only savior to keep them in business and profitable. If much of these scare tactics were true, then you would see it in states and factories that do not have a union.

I am not saying that there are not bad companies out there. There are good in bad with everything as I said earlier. Companies, government, political parties, and even unions have their bad apples . There is also good in all those things so this notion the union propagates that all companies and politicians on the opposite side are bad and out to get you while only the union and politicians on their favorite are the good ones here to protect you is just pure poffy ****. The facts just do not support this, and I have been on both sides of the card and both sides of the collar.