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Bless em.

I honestly don't personally care what any given one does or doesn't believe in. Or what they do, even when they are full of shit or corrupt.

I do have a problem when all of us are effectively put on the hook for any corruption, though. When that happens my problems would be with the politicians that do their bidding for their contribution, not with the unions or their leaders themselves.

Just as businesses don't get crony preferences if you don't have a government and politicians that are empowered to give it to them at all of our expense.

 

Not when it comes to labor unions, at least that isn't what I had in mind.

I think people should collectively bargain if they actually have negotiating leverage and it benefits them. It's rational. I also think that when people don't have the leverage to get what they want by collectively bargaining, politicians who unions have in the bag shouldn't be empowered to legislate in a way that gives them the leverage they don't naturally have. That puts everyone else on the hook (what I meant) for what I view as a coercive system of legalized corruption in this country. It's actually cost this country a ton, driving large manufacturing sectors away over decades, one by one.

Union leaders themselves? I don't care if they "believe" in collective bargaining (although I don't see much of a belief there, it's an action. Go for it.). They can be as corrupt as many of them have been proven to be, or they can be as pure as Ivory Snow. It shouldn't impact on me either way. You negotiate for yourself and you either have leverage (like unique skills that can't be replaced) or you don't (and you can be replaced by lots of other people who are agreeable to working for less). That's how life goes.