Union Abuse of Collective Bargaining

"Why Detroit Has an Especially Bad Union Problem", written in January by Logan Robinson, a professor of law at the University of Michigan. (Read the full article on the net)

I quote Professor Robinson from this article:

"The collective bargaining agreement with the UAW is a heavily negotiated document the size of a small telephone book. It is virtually identical for each of the Detroit Three, owing to pattern bargaining, but it doesn't exist at all in their U.S. competition, the non-union transplants. Not only work rules, but fundamental business decisions to swell, close or spin-off plants are forbidden without union permission. That permission may come, but only at a price, since everything that affects the workplace must be negotiated.

Both the UAW and the Detroit Three maintain large staffs of lawyers, contract administrators, and financial and human-resources representatives whose principal job is to negotiate with the other side. These staffs are at all levels, from the factory floor to corporate headquarters and the UAW's 'Solidarity House" in downtown Detroit.

The collective bargaining are now negotiated every four years; in each negotiation the poser and penetration of the union grows. If the company asks to change to change the flow for any reason, from cost-savings to vehicle improvements, the local union president will listen politely, and then say something like, 'We can help you with this, but what's in it for my guys?'"

Weakness at the bargaining table, greed of management, greed of the workers, highly paid power of the union bargainers and the ability to picket, use their propaganda in the liberal media or on the net, and strike or if stubborn enough. Hostile and unrealistic actions drive businesses out of town as witness Peoria; an arms length list of businesses that have exited Peoria, many because of the hostility of local union bosses. This hostility allegedly led to the unsolved assassination of a local railroad president.

Power corrupts and there were few unions more corrupt than the union led by the Hoffas. I believe, as often stated that workers have a place at the table when it comes to issues of health care costs, pay, safety, working conditions, etc. One reason that union membership is shrinking in the private sector and union bosses scrambling to hold and expand in the public sector is because of the the union creed that they represent all workers, good or bad, and union bosses must secure more salary and benefits regardless of the economic times if they want to be reelected.

Many politicians have the same creed as the unions which explains part of the reason this country is in the sorry shape it is in both morally and financially.

Students being taught by those teachers who are protesting violently in Wisconsin are the same teachers who bring to the classroom their hate and prejudices. Many people feel like the U.S. is in a decline.

Wonder why?