"Big Labor" - A term that we should all begin using
Whenever the price of a gallon of gasoline rises above $3 we begin to hear all of the thousands of participants in the petroleum supply chain referred to as "Big Oil"
But do you ever hear the press refer to the UAW or any other monster union as "Big Labor" even though those organizations have much more of a monopoliy on their respective industries than Exxon ever dreamt about?
The UAW has done to the domestic auto industry what the public employee unions have done to those big states also now looking for bailouts.
And we all know how the big teacher's unions have been looking out for the schools over the years, huh?
Monopolies are illegal for a reason. Big Labor should be subject to those laws also.
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Of course there is the idea that all unions are merely for the care and feeding of people oppressed by the company store, but that has not been operative for decades. Now they protect the incompetent and thuggish and let the leaders live like czars. Which is what they are.
If one were cynical (moi?), one could say that the reason that Big Oil is demonized is that it is not as successful in its machinations as Big Labor.
The last time that I recall a government-paid union being smacked was when the sainted Reagan fired the air-traffic controllers. I still recall the spitting rage of Robert Poli some years on.
"I don't care if they call it Ronald Reagan Airport. We are not going to call it that." I squirmed with pleasure at that. The snarling little bandit.