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Half of what you just said is neoliberal anti-union propaganda. A lot of people in blue collar unions get a ton of value from them. Teamsters and Boilermakers h

• Meph504 9y ago
  Ideally, Unions exist to do that, but like many institutions, overtime they drift and are distorted away from their purpose, and mainly serve to preserve their own institution. I can't speak to how unions are all over the country, and I can't deny that unions have played a positive role in the day to day lives of workers. But what I've personally seen working in heavy industry, both the stevedoring and the steel industry. Is that unions serve themselves first, and their members secondly, and if those places that have union security agreements. The unions force non-members to basically make their lives hell. At the same time, the union agreed to a salary freeze for all its members for a 3 year period. It doesn't matter if you are the best at what you doing in the world, we couldn't compensate you more to retain that employee if we wanted it. Ask anyone who works in the Port of Los Angeles about the unions, they have locked out all technologies from automation or even telemetry unless those companies sign contracts with union vendors, etc.. etc.. My opinion isn't based on theory, or propaganda, It's from seeing everyday. Which, I highly doubt most of the people condemning my viewpoint can say.