Dues are there for a reason. And it has nothing to do with your geographic location. Apparently that part has completely went through your skull. No one forces you to join a union, I imagine before you go into a career you learn a little about what it takes to start that career. If you didn't want to join a union I'm assuming you would pick a different career.
Just like I would never choose to work in a fast food restaurant because I wouldn't want to smell like french fries. I wouldn't go demanding that they stop making french fries just cause I want to work there, how arrogant of me would that be.
Kill the golden goose.. ? not following you there dude..
Union curse...? now you just sound like a Inquisition going on a witch hunt.
Dues are taken from workers with out their consent by draconian State laws that implicitly take away their rights. What's worse is those dues are then sent to Democrat re-election funds to re-install more useless Democrats who's ideology is to weigh down the private sector.
The modern day union supporter still thinks we have the same type of economy we had in the 1960's, the same manufacturing base when in reality America's largest economic sector is the Tertiary sector and manufacturing is now a global market.
In fact the Unions have elected time and time again a party that ignorantly drives out the private sector and the manufacturing base with high taxes and regulations.
You guys should re-think your political positions.
The Union could only grow and survive if it has the benefits of mandates. Mandated Union Dues in a Union shop or State. Mandated manufacturing base by imposing massive tariffs on imported goods. Mandated participation through oppression or laws that force Non-Union members out or give Union members Carte-Blanche to attack "scabs" and non-union supporters.
So the survival of the Unions depend on taking choices away from free people in a free economy. If the Unions ran the show manufactured items would be made in america with strict union control over compensation thus cutting out the benefit of free trade agreements and competition between Corporations. And it's members in spite of their political position are forced to
Remember the Chrysler K-Car ? The cars of the 70's and early 80's that were so badly built a 100k life span was a miracle ?
You've killed the golden goose by pushing a level of compensation in both the private and the public sector that cannot be supported by natural market forces and you did it in a global economy.
You personified the Corporate entities as the old stereo-typical ""fat cat" rich greedy Capitalist when most modern Corporations are public and owe their profits to share holders as dividends. And then the Unions supported a President that supposedly is pro-union but has imposed policies on the private sector that cause corporations and growth to shrink, to move elsewhere or simply shut down.
The UAW ran GM into the ground with outrageous compensation levels for unskilled, uneducated Americans that packed on legacy cost into the thousands on every car GM sold and when the company should have gone bankrupt Obama soaked the bond holders and gave 51% control to the unions.. how unbelievably stupid.
Did i help ? No, GM is still going to wind up going bankrupt and now the Unions are left with a shrinking private sector base and a public sector that's struggling to pay it's workers. HELL the Federal Govt's paying their employees with borrowed money. How strong is a Union that relying on borrowed monopoly money to keep them afloat ?
So you support the political party that's marginalized the people that hire you and price yourself out of a global manufacturing market and still insist with archaic arguments that Unions are still relevant. That are literally reaching into the pockets of workers whether they like it or not and then contribute to Democrat campaigns and/or candidates.
Unions and the politicians that support them have turned entire States into desperate situations with workers leaving to look for a way to support their families. When a legislature finally tries to get control of their states fiscal issues the Unions lose it and turn to destructive and violent mob. Get over it, be respectable and realize the voters have chosen to elect Republican politicians.
Sorry guys but Unions are shrinking because of Union tactic's and their demands for compensation that are not supportable in the WORLD economy. The sooner the Unions let go of the old way of looking at things and remember that ALL workers deserve the choice of paying dues and/or entering a union the better off you'll guys be.