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   runar said, about 1 year ago

   This would be funny if it wasn’t true.

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   pschearer said, about 1 year ago

   It’s not that unions are evil. It’s that unions are today backed by government power, and that combination is evil. Remove all laws restricting or empowering both unions and employers and the evil disappears.

   Of course, then the unions would have to earn their positions by performing the functions they should be doing, such as providing transferable pensions and simplifying employee negotiations, instead of what they so often do now, such as protecting incompetent workers or forcing unjustified wage rates that look good to the union members who keep their jobs but screw the invisible workers who are let go or never get hired because the union has jacked up labor costs.

   As for the old canard of “robber baron”, that term wasn’t applied to the great businessmen of the 19th century until the 1930’s, AKA the Red Decade. It’s a slander on all the businessmen who first created America’s economic greatness.

   But I think Darrin Bell is a terrific cartoonist anyway.

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   labellagine B. said, about 1 year ago

   I’m sure no one here thinks unions are evil. The guy who said they were was A CARTOON CHARACTER.

   ahem

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   tobybartels said, about 1 year ago

   pschearer: I'm a big union supporter, and I'm inclined to agree with you. (I do think that even today's unions are better than no unions at all; there we may disagree.) But for an uncompromising union that gets the goods and doesn't accept government backing, you need the reddest union of all: the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, www.iww.org). Go Wobblies!