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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4150374" data-attributes="member: 5412">The unions are why we have a rust belt in this country and steel manufacturing moved overseas. They couldn’t accept modernization of the steel industry that would of course cut some jobs. They chose to lose every job as a consequence. Unions do not have the interest of the workers as a priority for long term employment. Or they are just stupid fudds. They don’t realize that allowing robots to do some work requires more technical people to be hired to maintain, program and operate the fleet of robots, sometimes resulting in a higher salaried workforce that would be able to be screwed out of more union dues than a person with an air powered screwdriver on an assembly line to install a screw in a door handle, wherapon their job is done until the next door comes down the line for another handle to be installed. Yes, I’ve worked for the Teamsters Union and the IBEW. I didn’t like them funneling my dues to the Democratic Party either.</blockquote>