Here's a new video from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix thanking supporters for helping the Foundation fight compulsory unionism online by creating cutting edge video content in its new in-house production studio.
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Vindictive Steve
During my years of union membership, I frequently heard personal attacks like the one that Steve leveled at Mark Mix. As I sat in union meetings, I was routinely treated to sermons condemning anyone who disagreed with the union’s position. Class envy was served up in heaping portions regularly. While people like Steve may have been impressed, I found that personal attacks and envy were a poor substitute for reasoned argument. When I voiced my disagreement with some of the union’s actions, I was treated to the same kind of personal attacks as other dissenters. I eventually concluded that vindictiveness was the weapon of choice for union supporters because it was the only effective weapon available. The union’s arguments were morally and intellectually bankrupt. I eventually found the union’s policies and actions repugnant and severed my ties to the union and became a supporter of the Right-to-Work movement.
Steve may be correct when he says that there are hundreds of thousands of common everyday working Americans who are happy and proud to be union members; I used to be one of them. However, there are also millions of common everyday working Americans who have no desire to be associated with unions -- we have rights too.
Bismarck
The answer is not to abolish
The answer is not to abolish worker organization altogether. Workers need organization as a "check and balance" to the power of corporate organizations. The answer is to form ones own inhouse unions with national re-networking and to separate from the corrupt established unions.The power and accountability must remain with the rank and file and not remote big union bosses.
Holding Union Officials Accountable
Right to work laws merely outlaw agreements that require the payment of union dues or fees to get or keep a job. This gives the rank-and-file workers the power to hold union officials accountable by withholding financial support when union officials are unresponsive to the needs of the members. That power is denied to the employees of unionized employers in non right to work states. Right to work laws do not abolish unions. Right to work laws empower union members.
Bismarck
wages and benefits
Just wondering how much money and benefits Mark Mix and his overpaid staff makes while trying to break the very organization that is a voice for the common working American? Anyone have an answer for that?
DO NOT EVER FORGET MARK MIX, that there are many hundreds of thousands of us common everyday working Americans out here that are not only happy to be Union members, but are proud to be part of an organization that makes our jobs safer, fairer, and better paying than our non-union counterpart.
reply/wages and benefits
Its not the fact of how much this person or that person is EARNING. But its in the manner of how they receive thier EARNINGS. You and the dwindling hundreds of thousands may feel ''right'' by ''giving'' your EARNINGS to the upper society of the unions, and that is well and fine by me. Just please quit thinking because this is how you feel everyone else should also. You also can go on believing that life is great with unions, but from my experience it has made place of employment miserable. Oh yeah, and remember this you applied for your JOB they did not come to you.
I am VERY grateful that this
I am VERY grateful that this foundation is beginning to dismantle the age old American right to be in a union. Unions were initially needed, perhaps, but let us debate the harm it has done to are nation and its people as a whole because the unions continue to strong arm people.
I owned a real estate company and put many hours and LOTS of money into my business. The last thing I would want is for my workers to have, behind my back, formed a union to begin forcing me to change my company or overpay my people. Safety, decent pay and benefits keep a good worker on the job. In order to retain employees a company must be fair.
Some 'Unionites' are sure feeling PROUD aren't they. They get over paid so much of course they are.
Ask yourself this are you proud to have driven just about all of our industry OUT OF THE COUNTRY? Proud to destroy, what was once one of the goals, to keep American jobs in AMERICA? What a fake.
I can't tell you how many times I heard my old (part time) contractors worry that, "If the union knew I was working at a job without them knowing I would get in trouble"....WHEN THEIR UNION JOB COULD NOT PROVIDE THEM WITH ANY OTHER WORK AS THEIR FAMILIES PRACTICALLY STARVE IN THE WINTER! As UNION Building Contractors know, while working for a company in the winter, it gets difficult to get work....I guess the big Union bosses go on strike that time of year to let their members soak in the cold rain?
Crow
Yes don't force us
I agree that you are allowed to have your own positive opinion about union membership but it should not be forced on those of us who have had BAD EXPERIENCES.