Missouri Voters Overturn Right-To-Work Measure

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(08-09-2018, 12:44 AM)Benton Wrote: The union, which isn’t a third party, it’s the fellow workers mandates it, not the employer.

A union is like a representative democracy. You vote on stuff. The stuff you vote on is what the negotiator (who you elected) talks to the boss (or most normally a representative of the boss) about.

People paint unions as all bad, but sometimes they vote as a group to take pay cuts to maintain operations. Or to deal with lesser equipment or cheaper contract labor. It’s like hostess a few years ago tried to say they were filing banlruptcy because of evil union demands. Well, prior to that the union took a pay cut to stay in business, but the company turned around and raised executive pay with the difference. So they went on strike.

The union is a third party there. I understand it consists of the other workers, but it’s still a third party. There is the employer who doesn’t mandate it, there is the employee who doesn’t want it, so there has to be a third party if you still have to pay it.

I’m not trying to bash unions with this. I just believe they have been granted an authority they should not have.