'Do You Really Have A Right To Work?'
By Malcolm Hedges (08/03/08)
Surprisingly in many if not most states you really don't!
Ever tried to get a real job and discover that if you don't join some Union you are toast?
Often the Union demand/requirement is disguised, but it finally boils down to the real status.
The one state I am familiar with that has a "Right To Work Law" is Arizona. Unions get to hunt and poke as much as they want, but you are not required to join a Union to get a job in a Unionized operation.
A rather significant part of the workforce has no contacts with Unions other than the frankly Socialist propaganda about how much better Union members are than they are.
The Union dream is just an idiolistic dream, most of the dreaming belongs to the Union leadership.
Perhaps a few of you have been injected into a situation of trying to do your job when faced with Union rules that denied the opportunity for it to happen. I have been there some several times.
A simplistic view might be that a Unionized operation is designed bureaucracy gone wild. Work freedom is stifled by Unions with partitioned control more important.
Unions have somehow managed to bring some benefits to workers, but mostly it was totally by accident. One example might be the now typical 8 hour work day, generally a good concept but practically a very near sighted restriction.
I worked many a 12-hour day on the ranch as a teen and it was a necessity not a choice, gather the crop or it would be lost. (BTW: I had fun every single day).
Later, I had a "professional" position that expected me to work more than 40 hours per week to hide their inept management. I declined unless it was a true emergency or I had caused the need for extra hours. I didn't get fired, I did some several several hours of unpaid work for the good of the company and because I had made mistakes.
Not in the same time frame, I was attempting to fix a electrical installation that was substandard in performance. Since I was a sub-human by Union rules, I could not do my job. However, all was saved because a serious Engineer managed to come up with a scheme so I could work without being a "scab". We fixed the problem, in spite of Union rules.
Think Union and think mediocre, not convinced, examine and review the NEA(Union) which has graduated millions and millions of idiots with diplomas!!!
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