Union Perspectives

The GOP’s unintended consequences is having a devastating effect on our country. The GOP’s attack on trade unions led to a shortage of trained and skilled workers. The union trained workers go through an apprenticeship programs to ensure the workers are properly trained in their particular field. The GOP’s fight to keep wages low in restaurants and fast food places, for example, has lead to wage inequality, which copied with a deadly virus spreading across our nation is making employees reluctant to return to work. Now the workers have the upper hand, and are taking advantage of the labor shortage by now demanding higher wages, unions, job safety, healthcare and pensions. These demands have spilled over into federal government jobs, such forest service firefighter called fire techs. Last week President Biden was appalled to learn that these firefighters beginning pay is only $13 an hour and promised to correct. It’s kind of the problem, these career politicians have no clue just how l...

Indulge an old union man, but I feel like I need to get some things off my chest that are irritating me. For instance, retired union members who vote for republicans. Why would you vote for a party that one: hates unions and two: hates workers? Why do some males, because they’re really not emotionally developed, drive around in large, raised pick-up trucks with large trump and the American flags waving. Please look up the American flag etiquette because there is one and you’re violating it. And, why do you feel the need to rev your diesel engines like some obnoxious middle schooler? What’s with morbidly obese males carrying lots of guns like they could actually operate the weapons if in a stressful fight or flight situation. Playing Army with your friends is not the same thing as being in an actual gunfight so stop trying to intimidate people by wearing every gun you own. All you’re doing is showing the world you’re a gullible trump supporting low IQ uneducated wannabe. These are the o...