Many in south have been programmed to believe unions are bad. Yet those same people complain abt how little being pd, & how bad their benefits are.Many like voting R comes from ideas from their Daddy’s & Mommy’s believing company will take care of them.
“There is power in a union…”. I helped my son get an A in US History by playing you singing that song and explaining the backstory. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Not like this. Not to this degree. Where it's not just the rank and file that are blatantly right wing, but even some union bosses are as well.
This is unheard of, and especially destructive since under Biden the US has seen real growth efforts in membership & unionization in new sectors.
Manual labor, manufacturing & trades - those used to lean heavy to Dems.
Over the last 40 yrs, Dems have lost most of their support in those areas thanks to losing focus on issues average joes are worried about & instead pandering to fringe groups & pointless issues like identity politics.
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yay for union members,,, watch out from now on. Peelawn Pus is totally non union friendly , my god how could we be on the precipice of these criminals being in charge. This could be a flint for civil war.
Can’t remember the name of the cartoonist off the top of my head but the guy got his start drawing for the Non-Partisan Leader (newspaper for the NPL of NoDak).
My wife was in a salon yesterday where a woman argued against unions in every level of human endeavour, apparently ignorant of everything unions gained for even the smallest worker.
Everybody should realize that every employee, union or non-union, does better when unions win better contracts!! Don’t let them destroy the unions!! These benefits do “Trickle down”!
This right here is a Christmas tradition that started in 2017 and gets played every year, my kid grew up with it. It's playing now, I bet the AI Overlords in my phone heard it and that's why this post came down my feed 😅
Merry Christmas Mr.Bragg
Thanks for the jams all my life 💯
My grandmother hosted organizing meetings for the CIO way back in the day- wen I was a little kid I was fascinated by the 100 folding chairs she had in her storeroom. #UnionStrong
That card is why the US no longer has manufacturing jobs and why IS made automobiles are garbage. It’s why our schools sick and our education system is a joke. Unions had a time and place during ye Industrial Revolution. They need to be abolished now.
No. If you read my post, I acknowledge unions helped during Industrial Revolution. Greed isn’t granting shitty teachers tenure. Look up Penske and his attempt to buy Saturn and get back to me on greed vs unions destroying an industry. It’s a fascinating unfolding of events.
I used to be on a school board. That’s when I realized how valuable unions are to school stability and quality. And sh*tty teachers get weeded out within the first few years BEFORE they are tenured. I was in the room where it happened. 😉
IMHO the base of the criticism of teachers is that attention is directed towards their union protections and grievance procedures. But a school district without union teachers is one where there is a race to the bottom in wages. And if they’re taking care of your kids, you need to pay them well.
I would agree with you on testing but that’s the function of the school admin, the state, the school board and parents. When they all insist on high standards, the right teachers are hired and tenured. That takes time and money. But teachers deserve a good living wage regardless.
You miss the point of a union. Any time we are reduced to individuals demanding our rights and fair wages, the wealthy and powerful will win. They’re not afraid of one person screaming into the wind. They are afraid MANY people screaming together. This applies to any cause.
You don't realize how much ancient people had to work, is the thing ! We are more free than we have ever been. Remember, when they had to hunt for food 24 hours a day and never had time for any leisure? They did nothing but walk around and hunt, famously nothing else ever. No evidence.
The goal of life is to have your kids wait at home while you complete a few extra hours at work. They've already taken 8 hours, what is 4 more? 8 hours is only like 5/6ths of the hours your awake during the day. You can do more than that.
Thank Goodness for unions. I doubt I would have saved much for retirement on my own, but being in a union with a good contract made a pension possible. The benefits are substantial in my opinion.
Hubby union & now we have great pension. Union gave us great life. Just got his 50 yr pin. Would have had to work longer if not Union. Besides that we had fantastic medical.
24 Senate Democrats voted to override Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley back in 1947. The D's are complicit in destroying union power in this country. They refuse to take responsibility for that.
This country used to have two centers of gravity economically-speaking: labor and capital, and that meant that it had to have at least two political parties. After Reagan destroyed the unions it only needed one, and that's what we have today, the very worst one.
Lived thru Reagan yrs as young Union member. Was not good. Rs have followed suit now for decades being anti Union. Rs want poor people, so they have to keep working longer.
It is true that few of the rights and privileges that working people enjoy today were brought about by far-sighted and benevolent employers... We have them because we fought for them. It's a shame we seem to treat those rights with such indifference now.
Yup and they also think corporate overlords wouldn't strip it from them the minute they thought they could get away with it. They view workers as their biggest source of "savings" once they've enshittified everything else and are always looking for how to give workers less.
just showed the wife your meme
said to her look
the 2nd Gilded Age oligarchs
are taking this away from US
she said- fuck them motherfuckers
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#UnionizeAmazon
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Thank you, Francis Perkins.
Together we are United.
vintage comic of a working class white couple wrapping gifts by a tree and door with wreath
Woman holds a union card, saying:
"That card makes it possible for us to have the best Christmas in the world!"
Gifts: shorter hours, better working conditions, decent wages, old age pensions
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LeopardAteMyFace situation that they willingly walked into.
This is unheard of, and especially destructive since under Biden the US has seen real growth efforts in membership & unionization in new sectors.
Over the last 40 yrs, Dems have lost most of their support in those areas thanks to losing focus on issues average joes are worried about & instead pandering to fringe groups & pointless issues like identity politics.
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(see Matthew 2:13-15).
Both parties are anti-labor. This isn't red vs. blue. This is working class vs. the wealthy and powerful.
Have a joyful holiday 💙 🎊
Merry Christmas Mr.Bragg
Thanks for the jams all my life 💯
And its telling. Young workers are being abused on every level.
Indy now 🏴💪🥃
Didn't happen in the union I led.
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Corporate greed to be exact.
Privatising everything & squeezing the last penny from everyone & -thing is what led to the current mess.
Do you actually think people would have better work conditions/pay/rights if companies got to decide that?
Never heard of Penske, interesting story. Sounds like a failure of GM & UAW.
Unions aren’t infallible, but historically corps will screw ppl over for profit. Unions are the best defence against that.
Name another job where you can just say "no" to metrics your shareholders request. I'll wait.
If together we don’t stand
There is Power in a Union
The whole reason you were put on this earth was to make money for your employer. Everyone knows this.
You're meant to have no control of what you do everyday. This is America,
ERM... it's called freedom. You don't know
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Overtime...
5 day workweek...
In the USA; health care, dental care...
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We had a more secure quality of life because of it.
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Labor Day and the 40 hr. work week were because of unions.
Right-to-work states are terrible for unions.
said to her look
the 2nd Gilded Age oligarchs
are taking this away from US
she said- fuck them motherfuckers
i like my sweetie girl 💙