I agree President Camacho. What blows my mind even further is that at one point in America, unions were prolific, employers cared about their employees and the employees grew along with the companies. Both employer and employee invested in the success of the company and both were rewarded. Over the years, unions in most private sector employment were phased out. Employee salaries and benefits became smaller. Now we are at the point where private sector employees, rather than asking what happened to the perks they used to enjoy, are now asking why the public sector is making more? It is simply a race to the bottom and it is a shame that workers are being pitted against each other while corporations are benefitting from tax loopholes and tax credits. Our manufacturing base has been eliminated through outsourcing, we are climbing over each other for jobs, while the goods that we used to make are being made elsewhere for pennies and then imported and sold back to us.These men and women of enormous wealth hold in contempt the people who shout these slogans as much as the doctors and lawyers do who are against teachers keeping their weak little union. It's disgusting to watch these people protect those who they have NOTHING in common with. The rich must be laughing their ass off at these people who make a meager 100-200k per year and wondering how they managed to get such loyal and loud sheep to bleet for them. Don't even get me started on people who make less than that complaining about teachers' salaries. That just blows my mind.
Why should we care that 20% of the population controls 85% of the wealth? We should care because that same 20% over the years has influenced policy for their benefit. That same 20%, would be completely fine if our wages were dropped to the equivalent of foreign workers if it means that their profits increase. Those same 20% has the resources to put a halt to someone who has the dream that they too can reach that level, either by influencing competition and then buying out the smaller business when it cannot keep up or by having regulators increase pressure upon the new business. We should care because these same heads of wealth have fundamentalist ideals and they influence policy by fleecing the pockets of our lawmakers. The average teacher is NOT walking away with six figure salaries. Professors may but, the average teacher isn't. School boards executives are the most likely to be making such figures and they are simply another form of a politician.
No one is saying that unions could not stand to be tweaked especially concerning the inability to outright fire bad teachers but they should not be completely eliminated. To do so would see our collective standard of living decrease to third world status as there would be nothing to compare private sector salaries to. As it stands now many companies no longer offer full time positions with benefits. They would rather hire part-time positions and work them to just under what constitutes full time hours. Saves a bundle on providing benefits.