Unions Are Not The Problem

          For you Gen-Xers, Y-ers, Millennials, and all the rest of us Americans, hard working and hard pressed, here’s a news flash. Unions are not the problem. The “Agitators-with-the-answers” would like you to think so, but it’s just a trick.

           Here’s what unions do. They use the influence created by people who may act in unison, to motivate employers to pay a living wage and provide a safe work environment and benefits. They do it by banding together people with a common cause. They negotiate. Sometimes they walk out. Sometimes they merely inform.

Meanwhile, people have spent lots of YOUR money on campaigns to convince you that unions are your enemy. It’s a lie. Negotiated union benefits also help non-union workers, and supervisors get better wages and treatment. And all those wages multiply as they spread through our communities and strengthen our economy. They buy coffee and shoes and cars and houses and services from people like you.

Is there really someone out there who is so slick or so fat with cash that he or she can buy off or fast-talk away your grasp on reality? Make you think prosperity only comes if all the money goes to wealthy “job creators?” Do you really want less money available to create the demand that keeps you employed? That’s right, it’s demand that creates jobs.

           Around here, we know when unions get money for working people, everybody benefits—it bubbles up. When it goes to corporations and capitalists, it trickles not.