Reply #13: Are you aware that many of the labor laws that protect us are only on the books [View All]

[notadmblnd]

because of unions? The 40 hour work week, paid overtime, child labor laws etc.? Just because you don't belong to a union doesn't mean you haven't benefited by them (oh, your post says you work for GM). And what about all the people who fought and died trying to get many of those workers rights? Surly if your family has over 200 years of GM experience, then they also were affected by these deaths, I know my family was, were their deaths for nothing? Unions would have been totally unnecessary if corporate greed monsters could have been counted on not to exploit workers.

I know the only reason my son and I have health care and a pittance of husbands pension (husband is dead), is because a union fought for those benefits and without them we'd be joining the legions of uninsured, and could quite possibly be homeless.

Yeah, unions have done nothing.. Let's all go back to the robber baron years and enjoy working for our corporate masters because we can count on them to treat working people decently.

You know, there's an old proverb: It is better to remain silent and appear ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.