Do you think unions are a good thing?

I don't and this is a fact of why: Here is a true story for you that happened where I live at. A plant that employed thousand of workers gave its employees exceptionally good wages (the lowest paid worker made $30 per hour) and benefits (full health care, dental, eye, paid 2 week vacations, paid sick leave and annual raises) heard a rumor that the employees were looking to unionize. The managers talked to the employees and told them that if they unionized then the owners would probably shut down the plant. The union organizers told the employees that these people were bluffing and got everyone to vote for the union. Guess what happened? The plant shut its doors within weeks of the unionization. Some of these people who made $30 per hour with benefits are now working at places such as McDonalds making $8 an hour with no benefits. Unions may have served a purpose once but they are no longer needed because now it is all about greed.
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When a company is forced to hire 3 people to do the job of one person then unions should be gone and anyone that has ever been in a union has seen this before...I have been a member of 3 unions in my lifetime and they were all the same. When I joined the machinists unions I was told to slow down because the company would expect everyone to do as much as I was doing. My brother is a union member and he brags about working 4 hours a day and playing cards the other 4 hours of the day. They say on average it will take 2 to 5 years to fire a worthless teacher because of the teachers union and in Obama's stimulus he is requiring union employees be used for any project funded by the stimulus so we will be getting 1/2 of the value from our tax dollars.
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