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<blockquote data-quote="hubrat" data-source="post: 794896" data-attributes="member: 869"><p>I'd be willing to bet a majority of ppl don't understand unions. I grew up down the street from United Rubber Workers union hall. We thought they were gangsters that had a BBQ once in a while.</p><p></p><p>That percentage of unionized government workers is part of the 7% of unionized Americans. Again, my hunch is a lot of the remaining 93% don't have a clue.</p><p></p><p>I work for a private, for profit corporation. We get paid for a service that we provide at least adequately. Every American working in our company pays money to OUR government so that other unionized employees can provide......what?What exactly is their union doing for them? Getting them paid 30,000 for a teacher to educate our children and a cop to protect our streets?</p><p></p><p>No situation will ever go 100% our way. People need to grow up, learn some tolerance and patience, and respect The Other Side for their differences, not in spite of them. No more bipartisan bs. The people have to do something. The government won't, yet they're still taking our damn money.</p><p></p><p>Like the lady said, "But after seventy years of unsuccessful attempts at technocratic legislative, legal and regulatory approaches to expanding unions, there is no time like now to try mass social movement unionism.</p><p></p><p>With a ratio of one organizer for 1,000 organizing conversations in neighborhoods nationwide, just 2,000 union organizers could engage 2 million people—and that's plenty to create an untenable crisis that the elite will have to deal with"</p><p></p><p>I could tell 1,000 peeps about the Teamsters. Heck, just talking about it here and to our friends and family will help. </p><p></p><p>The Teamsters as an organization align themselves with the left, but I know there has to be more than a few conservative Teamsters. We can work together. Does the organization need improvement? Of course. So do I. So does my company and my country.</p><p></p><p>Above all else, the Teamsters are about striving for fairness. That's what I would like for people to think of when they here about the union I belong to.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the Article Upstate. I emailed the other one to my local's prez, now I'm gonna send this one. I tried to read wkmac's but I can't get past the pop ups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hubrat, post: 794896, member: 869"] I'd be willing to bet a majority of ppl don't understand unions. I grew up down the street from United Rubber Workers union hall. We thought they were gangsters that had a BBQ once in a while. That percentage of unionized government workers is part of the 7% of unionized Americans. Again, my hunch is a lot of the remaining 93% don't have a clue. I work for a private, for profit corporation. We get paid for a service that we provide at least adequately. Every American working in our company pays money to OUR government so that other unionized employees can provide......what?What exactly is their union doing for them? Getting them paid 30,000 for a teacher to educate our children and a cop to protect our streets? No situation will ever go 100% our way. People need to grow up, learn some tolerance and patience, and respect The Other Side for their differences, not in spite of them. No more bipartisan bs. The people have to do something. The government won't, yet they're still taking our damn money. Like the lady said, "But after seventy years of unsuccessful attempts at technocratic legislative, legal and regulatory approaches to expanding unions, there is no time like now to try mass social movement unionism. With a ratio of one organizer for 1,000 organizing conversations in neighborhoods nationwide, just 2,000 union organizers could engage 2 million people—and that's plenty to create an untenable crisis that the elite will have to deal with" I could tell 1,000 peeps about the Teamsters. Heck, just talking about it here and to our friends and family will help. The Teamsters as an organization align themselves with the left, but I know there has to be more than a few conservative Teamsters. We can work together. Does the organization need improvement? Of course. So do I. So does my company and my country. Above all else, the Teamsters are about striving for fairness. That's what I would like for people to think of when they here about the union I belong to. Thanks for the Article Upstate. I emailed the other one to my local's prez, now I'm gonna send this one. I tried to read wkmac's but I can't get past the pop ups. [/QUOTE]
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