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Unions In America: How We Got To Where We Are Today | MSNBC
Unions are powerful tools. Ask Poland. Their solidarity movement pushed the well armed Russians out of their country. Not a shot fired. A union can shut down a country and that is why they are so feared. They also helped people organize which is woefully lacking today. It takes organization to fight back/lobby for your rights and better conditions. Look at the unions in France. They do not tolerate the government when it steps on their backs. Reagan feared the unions and that is why he crushed them. Unions would have never sent their jobs to China.
@Kewpie Doll but, he didn’t speak out both sides..He was in one situation at one point of his life..Learned and moved in a different direction..unions are threatening and not always for the right reasons..you know this as well as I do..to act as if unions are not corrupted and use their powers at times for more harm than good is turning a blind eye to reality..
@Jeff Woods No sir. He was president of the USA when he spoke well of the Polish Solidarity union, and he was President of the USA when he went after the airline unions. He is like all politicians-republican or democrat. They will say what ever serves them at any given time.
@Kewpie Doll serves him or his constituents?
@Tiber Zeek There are more people trying to get into the EU than America. You don’t understand the nature of the US economy and its debt based monetary system. It doesn’t matter if you have capitalism or not. Under a debt based money system bankruptcy is a mathematical certainty. Attacking me does not win your argument. Rather, it shows you have a weak argument. I am not your enemy.
@Jeff Woods I’m am more inclined to say what best serves corporations and big money. The fact is we are all addicted to the intellectual property that big corporations own. Without it we will be beating our clothing against a rock. Corporations own the intellectual property of everything from corn flakes to toilet paper.
Plus, our country has been officially bankrupt since 1933. We no longer own our currency. It all belongs to the Federal reserve and each note is a loan-not money. The people and everything we produce has been put up as collateral. The Fed holds title until the debt is satisfied. We are 21 trillion in debt. If we paid back the debt there would be no currency. And worse yet, we will still owe the interest of the debt because the FED does not print the interest. Only the principle. Hence, bankruptcy is a mathematical certainty.
Unions are the only tool for working Americans to ensure that it “trickles down” your employer works on contracts why can’t you the employee?
Land of the Free bad management and poor decisions have nothing to do with company’s failures?
@james west You my friend, are the special turkey who thinks he’s above all the other turkeys that are hanging by their feet next to him on the conveyor belt.
Unions got children out of mines, created the 40 hour work week, brought about a two day weekend and endless other improvements to the lives of working people. Who would want to live in a country free of the protections unions have fought for in the west?
@NDFOOTBALL Typical fascist response.
@NDFOOTBALL and you are calling unions gangsters…projecting a little? HMMM
@NDFOOTBALL Or hire in cheap labour. Y’know, immigrants.
Decisions, decisions.
Trump breaking up the unions is a crime.
Another lie., just one if over 16,000 and counting.
Unions are breaking themselves up. Union membership is down 80% since the 70s.
Dave Schitz is a 100% filthy lying FOX propaganda republicockholster.
Establishment Democrats allowing union-busting for 4 decades is the bigger crime. None of this started with Trump… BERNIE 2020!!!
@Dave Schultz — WHY? Oh yeah, I remember now,,, the Democratic Party starting in the mid-’70s turned all of there attention away from their base, the union workers and focused towards the interests of Corporate America and the Professional Class, offering the Rank & File ZERO protectionisms against union-busting & Free Trade Agreements. Our Democratic Neo-Liberals (aka Establishment Democrats) in charge of our party have been onboard with the systematic demise of organized labor in America for about 45yrs now. Sources: * Bill Clinton’s “NAFTA” – Google *”Democratic Leadership Council” – *Obama’s 2007 campaign (broken) promise speech, “I’ll walk on that picket line with you, as president of the United States of America
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Money crushed unions, wages are stuck and owners are richer than ever before!
It’s funny because I work in a union. I’m also a Democrat. But all me republican co workers LOVE LOVE LOVE the union. I hate it. I’m not a big fan of it. But it baffles me. How much they love the union.
@Land of the Free hey you fake acct, you aren’t even in America so f.o.
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Unions are only as good as their leaders who are often corrupt and on the take. Unions are not the perfect answer, but until corporations develop a more responsible moral code and stop running their business like fiefdoms of which they are king and beneficiary and all others are just peasants and serfs, we will need unions. Less greed and more gratitude to the working class would go a long way.
Cut too short, full piece please!
“A society grows great when old men plant trees under which shade they know they shall never sit.”
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@Crystal Giddens Not really in watching black people trying to speed talk over each other. It’s ghetto.
@jeff Mac You are in a room with no door to get out. But, I don’t care where you are. You are not reachable. Apophenia. This is my last communication with you. Good luck in your own world.
@jeff Mac *”Just nuts” People! They mock you!*
@Crystal Giddens Nobody mocks me. Seriously. Trump brought business back to America. Did wonders for Veterans and health care . Built an embassy in Jerusalem. Tighten border security. Made America energy independent. Jobs are up. Wages are up. The stock market is up. He rebuilt the military, got NATO to contribute its fair share and ended the Korean war. Crushed Isis, offering a mid east peace plan and even restarted the space program. Even redid Nafta. The mickey mouse reporting from NBC that he’s a Russian spy is stupid. He isn’t racist and quite honestly the resistance is all basement dwellers and celeberties. Imagine what would get done if the Dems were not obstructing and Republicans doing nothing but waiting to ban abortions
Unifying behind Bernie
Bernie is the dragon slayer. Rambo trained him!
@Carl A He’s about to get punked by our Glorious MAGA Leader.
RMJ commie
No surprise; he made a showing in San Bernargetto…
And people complain about the “Bernie Bros”
Unions are imperfect, but the only mechanism to fight the elites. THE ONLY WAY! If it weren’t for unions, people would still be working 6 days 12 hours, children would be working, and there would be no Social Security. Unions gave Americans all that, and the media rarely talks about them Will NEVER see this show on FUX!
You’ll never find any answers here either…
The unions represent the elites. They’re the strong arm that gets in your face and tell you how to vote. They transfer a portion of your dues to the same party that is cheating Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. They’re just another crooked cog in the wheel. Strong borders and a labor market that favors the working man get you higher wages. A flood of illegals willing to work for peanuts is the death of your prosperity.
You’re being played for a fool on MSNBC.
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@Cool Hand Mark
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It was the “Reagan Democrats” that cut their own throats starting in the 80’s. Their greed and ignorance made sure that union brothers and sisters coming up from behind would get screwed too.
DHS whistleblower Philip Haney found shot to death
Union leadership, what I’ve seen of it in action, has succumbed to greed…just like so many others. They are failing workers in the same way companies have.
This is the result of union-busting with a multi-pronged strategy. Right to work legislation, high-pressure co-ordinated anti-union tactics by employers (see Walmart). Disinformation campaigns by politicians and corporate propaganda and wage busting across a number of industries by using undocumented or temporary workers or offshoring labor.
Where’s the reporting on the DHS whistleblower that was shot in California?
Like the saying goes: Live better, work Union.
Hmmm, I thought trump fought for the working class? …it sure doesn’t look like he is.
Unions need a major comeback, but the unions themselves need to reinvent themselves as well. I loved my union, but I hated watching them waste 60% of effort on symbolic feel-good goals.
If they want to be the standard bearers for the Middle Class again after being neutered by Reagan and scandals with organized crime, then they need to regain the trust of workers.
Until that happens, the middle class slide will just continue to slide.
1938. Hmmm; why is that singing of legislature relevant in that year. Oh, that’s right. It’s when the National Socialist German Workers’ Party started something to establish their rights accordingly. Kinda ironic, but not as much as big business striking back in 1948; or was it the Marxists?