Collective bargaining has been bugging me I have been trying to understand it..My first thought is why get rid of collective bargaining? Isn't that why union dues are paid so they protect you against greedy employers? Well it is, and it isn't, to a certain extent. In the private sector it really comes down to what the market will bare. But in the public sector it can hold the tax payer hostage. I have been on both sides of this issue my husband worked in a private union for over 20 years and we have had our own business for 20 something years....But what I think it is coming down to is what the unions do with the union dues they collect and the political flavor of the thing. If it is spent for the workers that is one thing but in most of cases it is not...it is used for political reason and in a most cases the workers don't have a say in this. That's my feeling and I may be wrong..

Well anyways I think this article helps explain it to me a little better to me so I wanted to share it with you.



WHAT IS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING?
Posted on February 24, 2011 by Citizen Tom

The Rag Blog uses this cartoon to portray (here) opposition to unions as a “component of the broader strategy by the Republican Party and frenetic conservative commentators to paint a picture in which Obama appears to be leading the country down the road to socialism, tyranny, and financial ruin—just like FDR.â€