http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2010/01/once-again-liberals-on-the-wrong-side-of-public-opinion/ Your daily dose of conservative offsets to combat annoying liberal global whining. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:09:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2010/01/once-again-liberals-on-the-wrong-side-of-public-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-75596 Norb Leahy Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:24 +0000 http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/?p=52668#comment-75596 Union Ambitions - Unions retained the utilities and very large industries like aerospace including Boeing, GE and others. Unions targeted government employees, illegal immigrant farm workers and educational institutions to replace manufacturing employees. They want to keep that base. Unions have attempted to organize healthcare workers and have had modest success. Despite these gains, their membership has slipped from 21 million in 1979 to 15.3 million in 2009. Of these 15.3 million members, 7.9 million are government employees and 7.4 million are in the private sector, down from 8.2 in 2008. That means 5.1% of the U.S. population belong to unions (yawn….) . So, when Obama touts the importance of unions, we wonder where he’s been since 1930. Unions and their functionaries (see Democrats) usually mess with companies in industries they think they could succeed in organizing. A few industries come to mind: 1) Banks – 80% of bank employees are Tellers earning $22,000 a year. 2) Retail – the same applies, look at their war on Wal-Mart. 3) Insurance and Financial Services – pay is a little higher, but the workforce is the same. 4) Healthcare is over-priced, sensitive to criticism (see extortion), land-locked and labor intensive - perfect. Union Ambitions –
Unions retained the utilities and very large industries like aerospace including Boeing, GE and others. Unions targeted government employees, illegal immigrant farm workers and educational institutions to replace manufacturing employees. They want to keep that base. Unions have attempted to organize healthcare workers and have had modest success. Despite these gains, their membership has slipped from 21 million in 1979 to 15.3 million in 2009. Of these 15.3 million members, 7.9 million are government employees and 7.4 million are in the private sector, down from 8.2 in 2008. That means 5.1% of the U.S. population belong to unions (yawn….) . So, when Obama touts the importance of unions, we wonder where he’s been since 1930.
Unions and their functionaries (see Democrats) usually mess with companies in industries they think they could succeed in organizing. A few industries come to mind: 1) Banks – 80% of bank employees are Tellers earning $22,000 a year. 2) Retail – the same applies, look at their war on Wal-Mart. 3) Insurance and Financial Services – pay is a little higher, but the workforce is the same. 4) Healthcare is over-priced, sensitive to criticism (see extortion), land-locked and labor intensive – perfect.

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