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       Editor and prime reporter is Doug Terry, a veteran television and radio reporter in   Washington, DC, (details below)

WHO NEEDS UNIONS?

The Republicans are right. I should have realized all along. There is no need for unions, either of public or private employees. Management will always strike a fair deal. They will go out of their way to make certain that employees earn enough to a decent living and to cover health care costs and save money for the kids college. Right?

Big corporations would never think of paying their employees poverty wages, because they know people have to be happy in their lives to be happy in their work. Corporations care deeply about people, since most big time CEOs spend about 80% of their time asking this question: Is my people happy? When they sense the slightest possibility that the answer might be no, they go running quickly into the work area and try to make things right, immediately. That’s the kind of guys they are.

Corporations would never cheat employees to make certain that the company earnings keep going up and up. If a company makes, say, a hundred million dollars a year and has 94 employees, the first thing they will think of is trying to make certain that those employees get a fair share of that money so they can live well in the expensive city where they are forced to live in order to work for the corporation.

Why would a company want to hire the less expensive workers for inferior work? No, they will always want to keep people with long experience and wisdom, people who know that the product is the most important thing the company makes.

It is just not that important that the stock holders get a really big return on their investment. No, let them have a good, solid return while the company grows by making a better product and getting more and more customers. Corporate management always thinks of the long term, not their huge year end bonuses and retirement package.

Without unions, then the rest of the companies around can pay less, which means everyone will be make more money! Prosperity will continue to grow among the wealthy and the very wealthy, so then they can hire the unemployed to clean their houses and wash out the toilets in their jet aircraft. Everyone will be happier.  Things are really going to be great, when the Republicans win and we can get rid of all the unions and other whiners and complainers who think people, the workers, matter, when everyone knows the only thing that counts is profit and more and more and more and more of it. And then some more.

We need unions like dogs need wings. The leaders of corporations, the governors and mayors who set the wages and determine the benefits for employees are always focused on what’s best for those people.  Most CEOs would rather see their companies fail and lose their own huge retirement package than to see workers not making enough. That’s why everyone in America has a good, solid retirement package and is making enough money to pay for the house and save for the kids college.

And how about those long vacations they’ve been adding without even being asked? Amazing, I say. I also like the way corporations fought to keep health care costs under control and let us keep our coverage for a full year if we get fired or  terminated? Plus, we get to take our coverage with us when we change jobs, even it means the old employer has to pay part of the expense? These corporations are setting themselves up to be our real government and a better one than all that messy democracy stuff.

If unions get their way, all of our freedoms as Americans will disappear. We won’t be able to walk down a street without feeling the huge oppression weighing on our shoulders. Unions will stop you from shopping at your local supermarket and make your kids take tests in school. There is no end to it. You might even have to pay your water bill.

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