Unions and the Dumbing Down of America

The recent news of the transit worker strike in New York reignited my anti-union passions. In just about every recent story regarding striking workers I found little to feel supportive about in regards to the workers themselves. Union workers already enjoy extravagant wages, benefits and pension plans that a lot of us will never see. And if you do the research you will see that unions mostly benefit those in blue collar occupations.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Earnings

This should illustrate why so many industries find themselves in financial trouble. Unions cause the cost of labor to skyrocket. Millions of workers, with barely a high school education reaping huge benefits. And as we all know, union membership is generational. Entire families of workers who have basically been pre-destined to follow in the footsteps of their parents into union jobs. With such a lucrative form of welfare, these families rarely have the incentive to pursue higher education inevitably the same unions which benefited the workers for so long, end up bankrupting companies, force closures and layoffs and in the end, destroy entire communities.

Once the union jobs go away, the press sweeps in. We see interviews with the former workers. Broke, struggling and not many prospects in sight. These poor, dumb bastards. Just like their counterparts on welfare. No education and no ability to raise themselves up by the bootstraps. Yes folks, aren't the unions wonderful? So caring and thoughtful.