Why are so many Republicans and Neoliberals anti-union?

[FILTH Tourist]

My first exposure to unions was the California teachers union.

• They make it difficult to fire bad teachers
• They defend teachers who commit criminal actions against students
• They will throw teachers under the bus if they are a little too based
• They automatically take dues from teachers' paychecks regardless if they are actually in the union.
• They use said money to donate to the California democrats and make the state worse.

 

[Str8Bustah]

to make a more serious post: the only 'union' anyone needs is union with Christ. Everything else is a worldly spook born from ego and pride and is doomed to fail spectacularly, which becomes apparent when you look at the history of unions as a whole.

Anyone who defends unions as a system after seeing just how much damage they've both taken and sustained in the modern era is, unfortunately, delusional and just as guilty of looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses as anyone else they claim does the same thing.

 

[GunCar Gary]

i would like to present exhibit A to your honor

But we can’t even put elevators together in factories in America, because the elevator union’s contract forbids even basic forms of preassembly and prefabrication that have become standard in elevators in the rest of the world. The union and manufacturers bicker over which holes can be drilled in a factory and which must be drilled (or redrilled) on site. Manufacturers even let elevator and escalator mechanics take some components apart and put them back together on site to preserve work for union members, since it’s easier than making separate, less-assembled versions just for the United States.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

A hangover from when the Republicans were the party of big business. It's not exactly that they stopped being the party of big business (entirely, Democrats have more support from tech, media, maybe finance, Republicans more from heavy industries) but the Trump wing now peddles protectionism and nativism which gets both management and labor (in the protected industry) on his side.