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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
You indeed owe a great deal of your workplace safety and happiness to unions and you're a deluded fool if you believe otherwise. Whatever issues you have with the day to day operations and political leanings of unions, and some of them are very valid I might add, are absolutely irrelevant to that historical fact.
And I appreciate the petty little swipe too. Classy.
Absolutely amazing how so many people are so militantly willing to give up the rights that people died for in order to secure for them. Amazing.
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The idea and theory of a union is a wonderful concept. Yet, like anything else it involves money and power......and we all know where that goes. v
Daley negotiated a 10 year contract with every union representing city workers, because he had the delusional visions of the olympics dancing in his head. Police and Fire did not. Well, when Rahm took over, a round of layoffs were enacted to show them who was in charge. The pay raises that were signed off on, suddenly dried up and furlough days (no pay) that numbered in the 20's were instituted. Especially the teachers union. He offered the raise that they were supposed to get but the x-amount of schools had to go to a longer school day. He broke the union in a sense. Illinois labor board is hearing the case that the union brought against Rahm. So both sides of the political scale are playing hardball against the unions.