Unions do not create jobs. What do they create? Unions create headaches for both business owners and their employees, and unions create unemployment for employees laid off from businesses who can no longer afford to keep them on because unions have muscled their way in, mafia style, and taken over a business owner’s right to run his/her business how they want.
S. S. blogger, Roger Bybee, doesn’t know business, and he doesn’t know Wisconsin. In the Arianna Nation, he warns that Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, is waging a “War against Workers“, and that such a “war” is “crippling the activities of public employee unions”. Well – isn’t that “crippling” effect among unions a good thing for the workers in Wisconsin, the businesses in Wisconsin and all Wisconsin citizens who now will not be forced to pay more for products and services? Or – is it better for everyone if they are forced to pay higher and higher prices for products and services because business are forced to pay higher and higher wages to their employees? The extra cost has to come from somewhere, and it is always passed down to the next person/business. In the meantime, the unions rake in big bucks from unions dues, (protection money), mafia-style.
We all want higher paying jobs, better benefits, job and pay raise securities, medical and health insurance provisions, time off, etc. For most businesses (predominately small business) this added burden causes businesses to either lay off employees to cover the extra expenditures of the remaining workforce, or to simply go out of business altogether after the unions have bled them dry, mafia style.
What liberals and otherwise pro-union supporters don’t talk about is that when businesses are forced, by unions, to pay more for an employee, and pay more into that employees overall benefit package, that money has to come from somewhere. Where that “somewhere” is ought to be obvious, and is obvious to conservatives. Businesses simply drive up the cost of their products and services and pass that cost onto their consumers, who can either pay the extra cost, if they can afford it, or find a competitor. What in all likelihood happens to a business’s revenue when their customer goes to a competitor?
Now, what happens if a customer stays with a business who has raised their price to cover the mafia-style union enforced employee wage/salary increase? The customer is left with that much less money for either their own business, or household. When one business customer must pay more for a product or service it is receiving from another business, that business, likewise, must raise the price of its products and services to its customer base. This causes an unnatural chain reaction, a domino effect, in that every business is forced to eventually raise its own prices for its own products and services to cover the additions costs they have had to incur to purchase the products and services they need to remain in business.
When that customer is a person – say a grocery shopper – who is paying more for a product which is now more expensive because the manufacturer of that product had to raise the cost to offset its union’s demands for higher employee wages/benefits; because the grocery store has to further raise the cost of that product to offset its loss incurred from having to pay more to put that product on its shelves, that shopper is also left with less money, which stretches their household budget, forcing them to reserve, conserve and spend less. Everyone suffers when consumers, whether that is business to business transactions or a person grocery shopping, slows the flow of cash in an economy. In very simple terms anyone ought to comprehend, the less money coming into a business, the more unhealthy that business is financially. When a business is unhealthy, financially, how healthy are its employees, financially?
What happens when the customer refuses to pay the extra cost? They find a competitor who can deliver the products and services they need, at a cheaper cost, obviously. (And most likely this business is non-union.) That business which has lost a customer to a competitor has less revenue, which means they have less money available to pay not only their employees, but the rest of their business related costs. In the meantime, unions have made a killing on union dues, mafia-style.
When push comes to shove – is a business going to pay more money to save an employee their job, or is that business going to cut one or more employees from the workforce to save their own business? And if a business, even one that is unionized, goes belly-up, what “protections” do those unions provide to the employees who are now out of work?
The inevitable result from this is that there is “survival of the fittest” going on among all businesses. Those business that have more capital, more cash flow and more investment in their business are better able to stay afloat, while other (small businesses in particular) are forced to fold because they cannot compete. Non-union businesses, even in the small business sector, are better able to compete because they don’t have unions bearing down on them, pressuring them for more money, mafia-style.
There is no Constitutional demand that all, or any, business be unionized. The only people who ever benefit from having unions in their business are the unions themselves. How do unions benefit anyone when all they are really looking out for is themselves? Employees might think their (union) jobs are more secure, and they will receive a higher wage, better benefits, etc, than a non-unionized business. However – if a business goes under because of unions demanding they pay more to their employees, money which does not actually exist unless they raise the cost of their products and services, and those businesses lose customers to non-unionized competitors, how are those employees benefited by unions when they are laid off?
American businesses have a right to run their own businesses their own way. When mafia-style unions barge in to a business, demanding that business pay more to their employees those unions are effectively taking the right to run a business away from the business owner. And, by the way, it is understood that unions are not barging in for free. They damn well expect to get their mafia-style “cut” and “tribute”.
Unions, and union pensions, also are directly responsible for many unbalanced state budgets, and the reason why your state’s Governor and legislature wants to raise taxes in your state. Either abolish teachers, police, firefighters and hospital unions and all public unions – or begin having public union employees pay more into their own pensions that go towards balancing states budgets. Good luck with that in Blue states. Or – will teachers only teach, police only protect, firefighters only slide down those poles, hospital personnel only saves lives if they are being paid what they feel they are worth, depending on the salary they feel a mafia-style union can negotiate they feel they deserve? And remember – whatever is negotiated is paid for by taxpayers, who don’t have any say in the matter.
Unions, just like any mafia, have destroyed the American economy and made hundreds of millions in “protection” dues. Meanwhile, millions of people are still out of work, still hunting for a job, and still out of luck. And unions in Wisconsin are doing everything they can to make finding a job even more difficult for Wisconsin citizens and business owners.
And Roger Bybee wants us to believe Governor Scott Walker, because he is fighting against mafia-style unions, is the problem?
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