Reply #7: For your own good you should. [View All]

Remember all the good old days that Rush Limbaugh and the others talk about in the forties and fifties when a guy could own a home and support a family on his wages? Well, this was because all those blue collar jobs were unionized, a fact that Rush and Co. fail to mention.

The Taft-Hartley Act in 1948 began the erosion of the unions because non-union workers could be hired and because it was easier to hire scabs during strikes. Ronald Reagan practically killed the unions when he broke the air traffic controllers union.

So today, we have lower wages, longer working hours and millions of jobs outsourced because of the slow erosion of the benefits brought to the working class once by unions. Workers have no recourse if they are fired or treated unfairly on the job.

It's time to bring the unions back and the only people who can bring them back is you, labor, if you are in fact a worker and not an owner.