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Beers with our Founding Fathers

collective employees and the public, and for the benefit of union

members, has turned public opinion against them. There remain
strong pockets and states adhering to the union cause – and these

are much the same places that unions saw their birth and growth.
Those times are over. The unions, understandably, will not give up.

There are politics and money, power and influence involved.
To increase memberships, while flexing their power and

influence, unions have tried two things: card check and open
ballots. Both are important to the overall cause, but having one will

lead to the likelihood that the other will also come to fruition. The
union lobbied ‘Card Check’ proposed federal legislation which would

require an employer to bargain with the union if 50% or more
employees were union members. This membership was designated

by the employee ‘checking’ their desire to be represented on a card.
Moreover, this would be by open ballot. Unions have pushed for

open ballots on all issues of employer-employee negotiations,
including membership and contract approvals. These attempts have

failed at the state level, and knowing the power of federal
legislation, have used the authority of the federal government under

the interstate commerce clause in attempts to have these passed as
federal legislation. To date these have also failed.

Unions are greedy socialist Parasitic Cults whose leadership
represents themselves above the membership. Remember one of

the key benefits, such as healthcare and retirement that unions did

provide with dues and employee contributions? That has all but
disappeared as those programs are mostly insolvent and the funds
that should be directed to union member benefits are directed to

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