The United Auto Workers union claims Republicans are responsible for the failure of the latest bailout bill. I certainly hope so! At least one party needs to continue to stand up to power-hungry money-grubbing union bosses, and we know it won't be the party of the SEIU and NEA's bedfellow and president-elect.
Ironically, labor union heads have become the kind of corrupt, strong-armed, authoritarian monsters that their organizations were meant to fight. Huge, obscenely powerful unions have the ability to cripple their industries at will.
The original function of unions was to prevent rich executives from mistreating and exploiting workers. However, we now have laws against the kinds of abuses unions formed to combat. In addition, in this free market economy (for now, anyway), employers understand that unhappy employees have the liberty to leave and go work for someone else. Worker satisfaction is in the best interest of a successful business.
Incredibly, since the extinction of the big, bad businessman, unions have become the aggressor--the cheater has become the cheated. The modern union objective and practice is the protection of bad employees at the expense of good ones. While a captive of the UFCW, I paid exorbitant amounts to this group and never saw a penny back. No doubt, my hard-earned wages were being used for in the defense of some sap caught sleeping on the job or committing lewd acts with rotisserie chicken.
Unfortunately, the victims of these outrageously misplaced priorities are often not just good workers, but also consumers and ordinary members of the public. Nowhere is this a bigger problem than in public schools, in which administrators cannot fire incompetent or even criminal teachers without dancing through an endless gauntlet of union-erected hoops. With the NEA, it's "innocent until we damn well say so and God help you if you even hint otherwise." No organization has subverted nor perverted its mission as well as the American labor union.
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