The existence of unions is an intriguing yin yang. The labor of the poor was and remains unfairly exploited. The need for and the rise of collective bargaining has an altruistic beginning. Unfortunately unions are no more or less vulnerable to corruption than any other entity wielding power and influence. My experience indicates that pen…
The existence of unions is an intriguing yin yang. The labor of the poor was and remains unfairly exploited. The need for and the rise of collective bargaining has an altruistic beginning. Unfortunately unions are no more or less vulnerable to corruption than any other entity wielding power and influence. My experience indicates that pendulum of fairness and abuse of power has swung too far to the union side. When the most menial of human tasks can freeze or lock up the global economy of the world it's purpose has changed from fairness to extortion. Moving from Longshoremen to teacher's unions similar abuses have manifested. The most talented teachers who excel in their profession are not justly rewarded. Conversely, poorly performing teachers are heavily protected by their union contract language. There is a poetic justice in unions becoming politically influential, aligning themselves with a political party and subsequently thrown under the bus by that party, ( off-shoring jobs, taking for granted, etc. ).
My mother had been a high school teacher, retired when the teachers' unions showed up. "Teachers' unions, what about the children?" she would lament. We lament still, only now, with public school perfomance so much worse. School districts either need a name change or a reboot. Such-and-such Independent School District. Independent, my foot.
The existence of unions is an intriguing yin yang. The labor of the poor was and remains unfairly exploited. The need for and the rise of collective bargaining has an altruistic beginning. Unfortunately unions are no more or less vulnerable to corruption than any other entity wielding power and influence. My experience indicates that pendulum of fairness and abuse of power has swung too far to the union side. When the most menial of human tasks can freeze or lock up the global economy of the world it's purpose has changed from fairness to extortion. Moving from Longshoremen to teacher's unions similar abuses have manifested. The most talented teachers who excel in their profession are not justly rewarded. Conversely, poorly performing teachers are heavily protected by their union contract language. There is a poetic justice in unions becoming politically influential, aligning themselves with a political party and subsequently thrown under the bus by that party, ( off-shoring jobs, taking for granted, etc. ).
My mother had been a high school teacher, retired when the teachers' unions showed up. "Teachers' unions, what about the children?" she would lament. We lament still, only now, with public school perfomance so much worse. School districts either need a name change or a reboot. Such-and-such Independent School District. Independent, my foot.