I had to “steal” the title for this post directly from the author, as the analogy was just too good. Let me quote directly several passages of this lucidly written editorial by Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.:
Like many people, I oppose unions on principle. That principle is: never negotiate the dinner menu with cannibals. American workers overwhelmingly reject unionism. According to a 2010 study by university researchers Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, only 7.2% of private sector workers belonged to unions in 2009. 93% prefer to work union-free. But union bosses, like socialists everywhere, do not recognize the will of the people; they claim to embody the will of the people. Unions protect incompetents from the consequences of their own actions, and force those consequences onto others – observe the Milwaukee Public Schools and General Motors. Individualism breeds exceptionalism, and exceptionalism is intolerable to the union collectivist. Under Card Check, unions would have been imposed upon those workers by their own government without any election. Pause for a moment to reflect on the obscenity of that proposition: the right to remain union-free will be denied by the very government [under EFCA] tasked with protecting that right. We can now add government and education to the list of American industries devoured by the union cannibals: mining, shipbuilding, logging, steel, automobiles, appliances, electronics, textiles, airlines, machine tools, consumer products, furniture, musical instruments – the list is too long to recite. To a cannibal, success is being the last one in his tribe to die of starvation. His union campaign is your invitation to dinner; Card Check lets the government RSVP on your behalf. Fight back now, before it is too late.
The article is a great read.
