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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

Unions

From Protecting Workers to Exploiting America
Collective bargaining has a nice ring to it. In today’s workplace

environment it simply means that a minority of workers extort the
employer into concessions that provide an unjust benefit to the

disproportionately represented workers. By current estimates,
unions represent about 10% of the national work and labor forces.

In some groups they represent a majority – such as public employee
(i.e. government taxpayer funded jobs) and factory or other labor;

technology and most retail positions are largely non-union. In
several states, they are not ‘right to work’, meaning that you do not

have a right to work in a ‘union shop’ unless you join the union; or,
you must pay union dues even if you choose not to join. Unions

have been gradually losing ground in their ‘negotiations’ and
membership recruitment and retention. Unions are now more of a

socialist agenda devolved to a true Parasitic Cult, which would
explain their higher numbers in socialist countries. To really

understand unions, and the valuable role they played in the labor
rights movement, and how they lost that role, it is important to see

the history.
Unions were formed in the 1920’s and had a high, more than

50%, representation of workers from the 1930’s to 1950’s. Unions
were formed to improve working conditions, and did.

 Child labor laws;

 Work hours were standardized to eight-hour days and forty-
hour work weeks with overtime;

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