Should Unions be allowed to use Union money to fight for the employment of illegal aliens?
So it looks as though things have finally come full circle for the American unskilled labor force. While many have spent decades paying union dues and.. at least in the last 20 years... getting very little for their money.... the nation's largest unions (AFLCIO, etc) have seen union membership decline as more and more Americans become educated and employable in higher paying professions... and labor laws now ensure most of the rights that made the unions necessary to begin with. Many people who used to praise their union.. as they made $20 an hour + benefits for sweeping a floor or standing at an assembly line snapping toy wheels onto plastic trucks... are now cursing those very same unions as they are working at Wal-Mart part time selling the toys they used to make... for less than they used to make per hour... because their old employers closed shop and went over sees to find cheaper labor.
Add to that the fact that many of the unskilled labor jobs that still remain in the USA belong to illegals now... and you can see why the big-wigs in the unions are beginning to feel the pinch of declining union membership, They are starting to worry about where they will get the money for their massive 6 figure salaries if not from the poorest of our labor force...
But wait... all may not be lost.
It seems that now... the very unions who are taking money from the poorest of Americas employed citizens.. are also fighting for the right to unionize illegal aliens...
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My favorite part...
"John O'Connor and three union buddies spent a day driving around Nantucket last week, looking for illegal aliens.
They weren't hard to find.
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Virtually the entire house framing industry in New England over the past decade has been taken over by foreign nationals who will work far cheaper than Americans, unionized or otherwise.
And in the booming house construction market on Nantucket, Salvadorans, Jamaicans and especially Brazilians — many of them "illegal immigrants" — are everywhere.
The undocumenteds supposedly are working as "independent contractors," usually for around $15 an hour. Because they're independent contractors, their "employers" can skip out on paying into the workers compensation pool; the illegals, in turn, can skip out on paying taxes at the end of the year.
The foreign workers have devastated the industry, driving down wages and benefits, not to mention job opportunities.
So the members of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters — and a handful other construction unions such as the council of allied painters — have now officially given up fighting the tidal wave.
Mr. O'Connor recalls telling Ted Kennedy several years ago that the union would like to sign up the illegals but was afraid.
"Don't worry about it!" he said the senator told him. "You're not the INS. Organize them!""
Yes... you read that right... They same unions who are taking money from American laborers.. and in most cases... not giving the laborers the right to decline membership... are using that money to lobby congress for the legal right to UNIONIZE the same illegals who are working in this country because they will take one third of the salary of a legal citizen.
In several cases... these unions are currently using the money paid by union members... legal citizens... to fight ICE in court after ICE raids factories and hauls away illegals. That's right. A poverty stricken American cant get a job as a carpenter because illegal aliens will work the same job for less money... and when Ice steps in. The AFLCIO uses union dues to pay attorneys to fight AGAINST ICE.
Why?
Because... once Congress (Ty Mr. Kennedy... btw) gives the OK for them to charge union dues to illegals... they will already be seen as saviors... and the money will once again start rolling in to the unions.
REAL and LEGAL businesses... who pay American employees... who pay income taxes... are the backbone of this nation. Construction companies... etc... who hire according to the law... pay a decent wage... pay their proper share of taxes.. pay for business licenses... pay worker's compensation... pay for health insurance... give paid vacations so that their employees actually have time to go blow a couple thousand dollars here and there... etc... they are a vital part of the functioning of our nation's finances... infrastructure and health care system. When those businesses can't get contracts because they are being ridiculously underbid by *Under the table" companies employing illegals so they don't have all of the out of pocket expenses... so that those illegals can live 15 to a 2 bedroom apartment here... and send money back to their own country... the entire nation suffers. We end up with MORE Americans on unemployment.. MORE Americans on Welfare... MORE Americans without health care coverage... and LESS money being put back into our own economy.
And THIS is what America's largest labor unions are using the American blue-collar worker's dues to fight for in court. If they win this... we can stop worrying about out-sourcing... because companies won't have to go overseas to pay 3rd world wages. They will have unionized in-sourcing.
The days of the need for labor unions has come and gone. What I don't understand is the fact that union members sit by and continue to pay dues while their money is being used to fight for the rights of people who are undercutting their *union* wages.
It's like... the unions raised hell until wages were raised... now they are advocating for people who work for less than the union allows companies to pay citizens.
It just boggles the mind that citizen union members do not revolt. Someone somewhere has got to wake up and smell the coffee.
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Originally Posted by run4it
