This to me is the most
odious and misleading proposal on the ballot.
It is called the
“Protect Our Jobs” proposal but is designed to only protect 3% of workers in Michigan and only union
workers. Most importantly, it would make union bosses more powerful than our
governor, legislature, and courts and yes, us the voters.
More plainly, the
unions want to prevent us, Michigan voters,
from EVER approving a RIGHT-TO-WORK law in Michigan
as is the case in many states including North
Carolina where the Democrats just held their
convention and where the economy is booming BECAUSE of their right-to-work
status.
Companies will not
locate to Michigan
where unionism is the law of the state.
Putting this proposal
into our constitution gives unions constitutional power over all past and
present laws dealing with union labor issues and specifically DENIES any and
all power over unions that our governor, our state legislature and most
importantly, our voters have currently.
Collective Bargaining
is not an American right as the commercials would have you believe but will
become a constitutional right if this proposal gets adopted.
The unions have tried
this tactic before; trying to make it illegal to challenge union power, but
were defeated every time.
This time they are
throwing millions of dollars into the fight and running confusing ads trying to
deceive the voting public into thinking that “their” jobs will be protected
when it is only union jobs that will be protected and from whom, us voters?
Anytime, a proposal is
being placed into our constitution for the express purpose of protecting a
special interest group with no benefit to the greater population of the state
and in fact a disservice to the greater population of the state, it should be
voted down big time…the nerve of those bastards.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSAL 2…
Won't it be nice when there are no unions anymore so then everyone can work for peanuts and you can be fired just because the boss doesn't like you or wants his best friend's child to have the job. Not to mention you will be at the mercy of the company as to if and when you get a vacation and forget about medical insurance. If you want that you will have to find a way to get on disability so you have medicare or medicaid because you nonunion people don't realize the benefits that you get from the union people. It comes from being ignorant, I know, and you can't help it. Companies will lie to you and give their people a half way decent wage and some insurance and vacations because they DON'T want a union, but without the union the companies won't have anything to compete with anymore. So I say, Live and Learn. Maybe people will wake up someday and say " Gee, remember when people got decent wages, vacation packages, medical insurance and decent working conditions. Boy, the good ol' days".
ReplyDeleteAs a business owner for over 30 years with over 40 employees, I disagree that employees have to be unionized to be treated fairly and be afforded needed benefits. Of course, I can only speak for myself. Unions did play a vital role in the history of labor but as always,times change. Today, companies that want to succeed in the marketplace, need to attract and retain good labor and they cannot do that if they somehow treat their workers badly and for this reason, unions are no longer needed and that is why union membership is dwindling. Unions today ate actually obstacles to progress because they tend to protect workers that just don't perform their jobs adequately. Unions today are basically engaged in self preservation and spend money on proposals like our Proposal 2 that tricks voters into giving up their right to control union power. yes the good ol' days are gone; workers now have to have a marketable skill and a good work ethic to enjoy all the benefits of full employment; you can no longer quit high school and expect a job with benefits higher than those of college graduates like teachers; you will be paid what you deserve and no more. If you can't put any effort into making yourself more desirable to employers, you should not expect to be rewarded with a good job; unions force employers to reward workers that do not deserve to be rewarded...the times they are a changing...
ReplyDeleteYou make a point about unions protecting people that do not do a good days work for their money and compare them to college graduates. I worked for such a large company that hired many "college graduates" and many that were not. We all had to do a good job and the union did NOT protect us against doing sloppy work. In fact it was the union that set down rules for our work and what was to be expected from us. People have the wrong idea about unions. In recent years unions have went out of their way to cooperate and help companies to stay here in the United States. They have taken many concessions because they knew that things are changing. It isn't that we need to do away with unions, it is that we need to learn to set down with the company and the unions and learn to negotiate in better ways and for a common cause that is good for both the companies and the people. The laws that we have today are there because the unions fought to get them there and these laws are for everyone, not just a union employee. We won't know what it will be like without a union until we no longer have them. I have worked for union companies and non-union companies. I have never worked for either one that would tolerate someone NOT doing their job to the best of their ability. You used teahers as an example of someone that doesn't have a union. Teachers do have unions. Some prefer to work without a union contract and some prefer a union contract. Most people that do not like unions, don't like them because they have never worked in a union atmosphere or they have listened to every negative thing they have heard over the years ( and believed) about unions and did not want to hear anything positive. There are nurses , teachers, welders, mechanics, electricians, maintenance workers, plumbers and many more professions that are unionized. These people have skilltrades and some have college degrees and they all have benefits and wages that help them live a decent life. I certainly hope and pray that everyone thinks about it real hard before they actually come to any kind of a conclusion that are workers would be better off without a union and collective bargaining rights.
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