RE: Right to Work laws in America
April 17, 2018 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2018 at 12:23 pm by Brian37.)
"Right to work" laws really should be called, "Let the rich fuck you over" laws.
To be fair, unions can go off the rails too. This doesn't even have to be about unions, but anything humans do, regardless of position.
Humans do everything. We run private businesses, we run religions, we run political parties, we run governments. Any one of those categories if left with no checks on it, by themselves or in combo with others, can rise to an abusive monopoly.
The key in an open society isn't either/ or but BALANCE in anti monopoly concepts.
I would only agree at this point in history corporations are very abusive right now. It isn't that every individual in them is bad, but just that the climate is lopsided to the top. Workers have not had the level of power they once had during the post WW2 boom, and we should get back to to that.
It still amounts to power for any sect of society and keeping a check on that power.
(April 17, 2018 at 12:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(April 17, 2018 at 11:56 am)henryp Wrote: It's a lose-lose situation. Unions leaders get rich off from running the unions. But if you don't have unions, you have less bargaining power. The worker gets screwed either way.
True, but corporate scumbags get rich from oppressing the workers without one. The issue is the depth of the screwing. The union's job is to stop the company from shoving their dicks all the way up the workers' asses.
To be fair, unions can go off the rails too. This doesn't even have to be about unions, but anything humans do, regardless of position.
Humans do everything. We run private businesses, we run religions, we run political parties, we run governments. Any one of those categories if left with no checks on it, by themselves or in combo with others, can rise to an abusive monopoly.
The key in an open society isn't either/ or but BALANCE in anti monopoly concepts.
I would only agree at this point in history corporations are very abusive right now. It isn't that every individual in them is bad, but just that the climate is lopsided to the top. Workers have not had the level of power they once had during the post WW2 boom, and we should get back to to that.
It still amounts to power for any sect of society and keeping a check on that power.
