Right to Work laws in America

[Anomalocaris]

People who stand up for the poor always seem to get rich doing it.  There's something to that that is unsettling.

Far less unsettling than the rich being given a cultural right to build any structural gaurantees they fancy for their wealth at the expense of the chances of the poor to become less poor. Better to enrich those who stand up for the poor than those who stand on the poor.

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The union's job is to stop the company from shoving their dicks all the way up the workers' asses.

That's true, but in many cases it is only to leave enough room for union management to stick their pencil dicks in there too.

I do not believe people should be forced to join a union and pay dues as a prerequisite of employment. Once upon a time I worked in a Boeing union shop without paying dues. I opted not to be a dues paying member because the only thing that mattered to the union was seniority. While seniority should certainly be an important part of the equation it should not be the only thing that matters. I did twice the work for half the pay of the super senior union reps with zero chance of ever earning as much as they did despite being better at the position we were all hired to fill.

Give them some guarantee with teeth of what their employer would otherwise take away, and we wouldn’t need the Union.