Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
With the rise of unions in the 1940s, so do did the middle class rise out of the poor and working class. As unions have been broken the middle class has started to disappear like today. Historical fact.
Having worked in NY at JFK airport, where a job that would have taken me 8 hours took 3 days, I have no use for the "modern" union. I had to direct their people on how to do my job. Between the coffee, lunch and smoke breaks, we only got in about 4 hours of work each day.

The 'unions' are stronger than ever each place I have been. Only one time when the company was loosing huge amounts of money and the plant was at risk of closing did they ever say "go ahead and do it yourself, we need to get this unit back up and running" Sit around and wait.

I understand the need for unions back in Upton Sinclair's days, but everywhere I have been, the union's only function was to protect the people that should have been fired. They promote laziness and working of the system.