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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2015702" data-attributes="member: 229">I guess I don&#039;t understand how:1.) You can seriously make the comment that most folks (presumably on OSA... like even in this thread) aren&#039;t saying that unions are bad...&nbsp; We can split hairs over the anti-union comments all day, but c&#039;mon man - there&#039;s enough hate in this thread alone to make my point.I&#039;m not saying Unions are good or bad - they&#039;re inanimate organizations.&nbsp; There are no &quot;unions&quot; doing anything wrong, just bad people running an organization - that is where the focus of disgust should be (on the individual people doing the wrong).2.) Coerced membership is obviously wrong, but who is forcing folks to join a Union?&nbsp; Again - those individuals doing the wrong are whom the focus of anger should be as this is not the purpose of a union in the first place.&nbsp; Legally, there is no forcing of anyone to join a union in order to remain employed - if a company signed a contract with a Union, they are the ones who made the rules so instead of hiring unskilled workers and training them in-house, they thought they&#039;d save money and require the Union to provide skilled workers.It&#039;s just really odd to me that so many folks are all about companies&#039; rights - even if it involves mistreating employees, yet a union should have no rights (but what if all of the employees decided they had enough and exercised - individually / without coercion - their right to stop putting up with a company&#039;s treatment?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2015702, member: 229"] I guess I don't understand how: 1.) You can seriously make the comment that most folks (presumably on OSA... like even in this thread) aren't saying that unions are bad... We can split hairs over the anti-union comments all day, but c'mon man - there's enough hate in this thread alone to make my point. I'm not saying Unions are good or bad - they're inanimate organizations. There are no "unions" doing anything wrong, just bad people running an organization - that is where the focus of disgust should be (on the individual people doing the wrong). 2.) Coerced membership is obviously wrong, but who is forcing folks to join a Union? Again - those individuals doing the wrong are whom the focus of anger should be as this is not the purpose of a union in the first place. Legally, there is no forcing of anyone to join a union in order to remain employed - if a company signed a contract with a Union, they are the ones who made the rules so instead of hiring unskilled workers and training them in-house, they thought they'd save money and require the Union to provide skilled workers. It's just really odd to me that so many folks are all about companies' rights - even if it involves mistreating employees, yet a union should have no rights (but what if all of the employees decided they had enough and exercised - individually / without coercion - their right to stop putting up with a company's treatment?). [/QUOTE]

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