Try what again? And you say I'm the one not making any sense? lol
Here. Let me help.
I like unions. I remember when I studied American History in the eleventh grade, taking the course from Coach Lovell. Well, mostly he talked about football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and baseball and track in the spring, but I read the book. Used to be some really bad work situations, especially those coal mines owned by Al Gore's greatgrandpa, steel mills where they were making railroad ties to build the iron highways across the country, maybe some garment factories. A lot of immigrants back in those days. And farmers were still having more kids than it took to work the land what with new machinery and all. I've got some of the "new" machinery. Glad I don't have to work with that now. But back then it meant a lot of boys and girls from the farms had to go to the cities and look for cash jobs.
Then there were the cartels, like Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and the big Steel men. These folks had "company stores" where workers got to spend more than they earned just buying bread and some necessities. I remember legends like the Molly Maguires, the Pinkertons, and a lot of brutal violence. Men with nothing demanding something for their service.
Then I got a job at a plant where the UAW supposedly represents the working men. And over the years I saw the local Union heads, one by one, negotiate "deals" for the striking workers where after a few weeks running low on groceries and having no savings to pay the mortgage, the union men settled for less than they were offered before going on strike. After a couple of years, the "union" heads who negotiated these wondrous contracts were, one by one, given comparatively lush management jobs.
hate to say so, but they were sell-outs. I'm convinced our Unions today are generally sell-outs so far as the workers are concerned, at least in the private sector.
When I listened the other day to the former UAW national chief explaining how the money honchos are trying to bust the whole idea of Unions, I agreed with him. Yes, he has good reasons to know for sure. He helped the big money honchos bust the Unions in the private sector by supporting NAFTA and GATT and the WTO, and he knows he supported exporting jobs to where the big money honchos could get the job done for much less, and enjoy lucrative profit margins.
But public sector unions are something else. The big money honchos need a leige servant class that is attractively paid, to staff the bureaucracy that is supposed to keep the trailer trash folks under the heel of BigGov, which they, the bigmoney honchos, now own lock, stock and barrel.
And did anyone else notice how the Union "elite" bosses carry themselves nowadays? They got the same perks the CEOs have.
Sell-outs.