Sonny

Sunday 12/10: Read Dr Laura's nutty piece on unions and wasn't too surprised. Unions exist for the working class, i.e. folks who go to work everyday, pay rents and mortgages, raise children, work more, get called in to work on their days off and serve the public. These folks should be justly compensated! Naturally, she wouldn't understand. Her method of getting a job promotion in the radio biz was to have an affair with her boss and then preach morals to her idiot listeners!

She quotes a talk given by a guy from the Wall Street Journal! The conservative WSJ exists to make sure business profits..unions organize workers so the profits aren't at the expense of the employees. Then she goes on to call the unions "gulags" and dredges up all the mob cliches from the past.

It's a fact that some who work where unions are present don't want to pay dues, but they expect to reap the benefits when negotiations with management come around. But these folks are notorious for bad-mouthing the unions to ease their guilt about not paying dues. They throw mud..some sticks and some doesn't!

They are in the minority. They are self-serving, hypocritical, hyper-critical and will always be in the work environment Even if a union was voted on by the majority, they still don't have to pay dues. Instead, they pay an agency fee, determined by the union and usually less than dues. And they still benefit from collective bargaining, i.e., any raises and benefits negotiated between workers and management! Do you think management is just gonna drop and give you just compensation if you are among the rank and file? NO WAY! Especially true in private industry where profit and greed rule...just look at the NewsPress! It is scared to death of the union!! Wendy's got Dr. Laura, Agnes Huffsnit and Travis 0.23 firing off editorials, press releases and columns explaining the evils associated with union representation..and it's all BULL!

Soon, Wendy, who got her fortune by divorce, will have to sit and talk face-to-face with her perceived enemies- her employees. So far, she has been afraid to! Her "leadership" through the NewsPress saga has been frightful. Dr. Laura calls this "individuality"!!