Why should the people who don’t want to join a union benefit from the pay and working conditions earned by unions and their dues-paying members? Let them work at a non-union shop and get whatever they fight for on and individual level (good luck with that!). They are totally free to work for any non-union employer they desire, but they do NOT have a right to the compensation and working conditions earned by dues-paying members. Hell no.
Wow CAR evincing a conservative opinion. Those non-union freeloaders getting all the benefits without paying the union costs. Kind of like entitlement programs! It’s amazing to see the same argument applied in almost the same way to two different groups.
Society is a closed system, just like a union. Why should people who don’t contribute much to the system have a right to benefits provided by the system? Apply liberally and repeatedly.
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Which “entitlement programs” are you referring to? Social Security and Medicare? In most cases, the people who benefit from these programs are the people who contributed to these programs. These benefits were earned; they are not free.
I would also add, again, that the greatest “takers” from our system are those who extract more than they put in. Just because somebody contributes say 70% of the tax revenue, if they are taking >70% of the benefits provided by the government, then they are net beneficiaries (“takers” in conservative parlance). You can pay a tiny percentage of the tax revenues yet still be a net donor if you are using very little of the infrastructure and benefits provided by the government. It’s very important that people understand this concept.
