Re: "The answer to the question, "Do union leaders retain their salaries while the members they represent are unpaid on picketlines?", is revealing."
Unions, including ours, have what is known as a strike fund. If we go out strike, the strike fund is tapped. If the strike depletes the assets in the strike fund, then the international can tap its resources to help members put food on their tables. Other locals also help replenish the strike fund. Last year our local sent some money ... I believe $1,000 ... to assist our brothers and sisters out on strike in another city. So you were badly misinformed concerning Part 2 of your union bashing post. Do not believe everything you read in newsmax.com or the Washington (Moonie) Times.
Re: "Since you can't argue against the merit of the article you attack the author."
If the source is corrupted, no use debating the message. For instance, I generally do not respond to any post citing newsmax.com as source. What's the point? Newsmax.com has no credibility, as we witnessed when the Web site posted the libelous e-mail purporting to reveal the "truth" about the Congressman Condit's sexual preferences. Wake up and smell the bias, Doug.
Re: "How about the sandbagging losers who's jobs you defend because afterall, they're (dues paying)"brothers"?"
Companies fire sandbaggers every day of the year. Only difference is that at a union plant, the company has to have a good reason to fire the employee. At a nonunion plant, people are often fired because a manager woke up on the wrong side of the bed in the morning.
That's why people vote in unions in the first place. |
