Union Hypocrisy Over Minimum Wage

[Boss 302]

Unions in LA had supported an increase of the minimum wage there until after the LA city council passed it. Now it wants union shops to be exempt from it. Article.

 

[J-man]

"The rules shouldn't apply to us, only to them."

 

[The Sound Guy]

I agree with the comment that this could push businesses into allowing their employees to join the union, just to reduce their wages.

It's about Union Power now, not the workers.

 

[Boss 302]

I agree with the comment that this could push businesses into allowing their employees to join the union, just to reduce their wages.

It's about Union Power now, not the workers.

Membership of unions in the public sector has been declining significantly over the past 30 years. A lot of that has to do with corruption and union leaders being convicted for RICO violations. A lot of people just don't trust unions anymore. Foreign manufacturers who have built production facilities have been choosing right to work states in the South because most people in those states don't like unions. Recently, the employees at the VW plant in Chattanooga voted down being in a union. Now unions want to do away with secret elections on these matters and opt for employees to fill out a card instead. This gives them the opportunity to intimidate people to fill the card out right then and there and hand it back to count as a "yes" for union representation.

Boeing in SC was supposed to have a union election last month, but the union called it off. They said some of their canvassers going door-to-door to talk to Boeing employees about the benefits of having a union were greeted a few times by people brandishing their guns telling them to get off their property. Unions are getting desperate.