Sunday, February 23, 2014

UNIONS ARE THE ANSWER


All over the news for the last year has been stories about food stamp cuts; minimum wage increase, health insurance, and pay inequality. All of these things should be talked about, but why does union organizing and the benefits of unions get no time on the air? Unions would solve a lot of these other problems with better pay, and health insurance for its workers. The only time unions get mentioned is when they are brought up negatively. The same old kinnard from the GOP about union dues. We all know the reason why the GOP is trying to kill unions. Then they have no one on the other side with any money to oppose them. A perfect example of these GOP haters are Bob Corker a Republican Senator from Tennessee who in my opinion lied about what Volkswagen was going to do in the recent election to unionize the VW plant in his state. He said he has been "assured" that if workers at the Volkswagen AG plant in his hometown of Chattanooga reject United Auto Worker representation, the company will reward the plant with a new product to build.

The Governor of Tennessee another Republican also threatened to with hold tax incentives to a plant that was unionized. Mr. Corker should be made to tell who in the company told him the story he put out. If he can't or won't he should be expelled from the United States Senate. Then there is Nikki Haley the Republican Governor of South Carolina who said "make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted and not welcome in the state of South Carolina” These people's only concern is that they can keep the workers of their respective state working for as little as possible, they do this to serve their corporate masters. Workers don't mean anything to these people, and any person who would turn away jobs because the employees might make a decent living are beneath contempt.

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