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We all can stand to have more glittery people in our lives.

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The other evil lurking in the RTW laws is that it allows employers to terminate an employee at will without cause.

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A union is what allowed my father, an autoworker, to send me and my sister to expensive private colleges and expand our home so it could comfortably house five people. When he was laid off through no fault of his own, he got 80 percent of his salary.

I got thrown out of work just before Christmas (ho, ho, ho, clear out your desk). When I mentioned to my sister that I'd be collecting unemployment and told her the amount, she said, "What? That's all? Aren't you supposed to get 80 percent?"

I just laughed and said "Those days are over, honey."

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THANK YOU.

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like say when they reach the 18th year of their pension, so look at the savings, not having to pay that!

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This is beautiful, Robyn. Thank you

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i remember hearing a story told by arlo about woody guthrie being asked by the ladies' auxiliary of a union to write a song for them and he said, well i already did it's called union maid. And they said well it doesn't MENTION the ladies' auxiliary

so he wrote

oh the ladies auxiliaryit's a good auxiliarybout the best auxiliary

that you ever did seeso if you need an auxiliarytry the ladies' auxiliarythat's the ladies' auxiliary

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The rise of the unions was the rise of the middle class. The decline of the unions was the decline of the middle class. The other effect of decline is to remove the possibility of a national strike, which might have been an effective antidote to the current crisis, which is starting to smell like a fascist dictatorship. The Trump phenomenon may not be as spontaneous as it looks.

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I think you should turn that paper in for a grade.

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Thank you, Robin - from the bottom of my working-class, union organiser heart. <3

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Precisely.

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Local 503 here.

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Shhhh-you aren't supposed to let anybody know.

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Just saying that is how they think. I had a union shop for 19 years, would not have it any other way. I believe in paying a good living wage because for my employees it was a career that they took pride in and we took pride in doing a good job for our customers.

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I think this might be the single best article that I have ever read.

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I'm glad I'm in a union, though given the results of their negotiations I wish they had a little more teeth. Still, this article brings me back to my co-worker.She loves the union; thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. She also thinks the union is going to save her from every little thing; poor work performance, getting into arguments with customers, getting into fights with her co-workers; everything. Even so much as a suggestion to a problem she's having will trigger a union call about how she's being discriminated against for her age/gender/whatever she feels like that day. She just doesn't get that's not what the union's for, and that it's a huge waste of time for everyone involved.And yes, she's a Trump supporter who thinks he's going to make her rich. Welcome to my work day...

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