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Why I Support Unions

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George Santayana said in Reason in Common Sense, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  Looking back 100 years, there were no unions, no EPA, no OSHA.  The robber barons were in charge.  You worked for a company who paid you in scrip that you used to purchase your personal needs from the company store, which were seriously overpriced­, you went deeply into debt with no way to come out from under, unless, of course, you had something the company boss wanted.

Before organized labor, there was no middle class.  It took FDR to finally stand for labor and make it a priority.  Funny thing is, what few people don't realize is, FDR was alive when both Russia and China fell to Communism.  He saw what happened when people were starving.  I know he ran charities, but I believe more that he supported labor to protect himself from a major labor revolt.  We were in the middle of the Great Depression­, with little way out of it.  People were starving.  Unemployme­nt was about what it is now.  Thanks to the labor laws, we had the greatest prosperity we have known as a nation.  This ran from the end of World War II through the 1960's. Then there was the initial underminin­g of unions here and there.  Word had to get out and be repeated very often to make people believe it (and my dad always said, believe none of what you hear, little more of what you read, and only half of what you see) that unions were BAD AND EVIL.

Except that union insurance paid for my godfather'­s wife's cancer treatment and home care.  When his son was in a car accident, it paid for his full treatment, including almost two weeks in the hospital.  He worked hard, but he was paid decently and could give his family a nice home.  I forgot that.  I forgot that people got decent wages because of unions, and now the only way for the robber barons to get back in power was to under-cut the unions one step at a time.  Yes, there is corruption in some unions.  But you can say that about anything -- corporatio­n, politics, churches.  Where there are human beings, there is the potential for corruption­.  There is also the potential for great good.

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