Dirty Shoez said:
They're incredible for the working class, but I'm one of those Dreamer-Conservatives who hopes to strike it rich one day, become White Collar, own my own business, etc. I like the idea of having complete control. Maybe I'll change my ways after joining.....who knows?
If it makes people happier, I'm all for it. I'll watch everybody's back if they'll watch mine, regardless of my personal politics. I wouldn't have taken the job otherwise.
Yeah, you share that dream with plenty of working class people. But, the fact is that not everyone can accomplish it (hardly anyone), therefore having unions
is supposed to protect the rights of those who don't accomplish the dream (pretty much everyone). While some unions do hold true to what they're supposed to do, time and time again I hear people talking shit about their unions. Unions were strong in the early part of the 1900's in the US because of the IWW and other organizations at the time, but unions now aren't really shit in the large scope of things, even the NFA hasn't really done shit at all lately. It is really sad that things are this way now...
Edit: Ahh fuck, I'm high and I just realized this thread is in the open forum and not the GOM. Oh well, I gave a GOM-type response, but I'm not gonna delete it...