In a letter to the editor at the Las Vegas Sun, union supporter Dave Newton stated what many know intuitively to be true about Big Labor leadership, and the impact of unions on the American workplace. He first admits that Big Labor is stuck in a 1950s paradigm. He laments that unions’ activities are more about “protecting incompetent employees, compensation policies that offer no reward for excellence, fighting productivity increases from restructuring jobs, and resisting innovation” than helping its members. He continues,
“Instead of finding ways to be more attractive to members and less unattractive to employers, their strategy has been to find new ways to coerce people to join (i.e., corporate campaigns and the Employee Free Choice Act) and to spend millions on political campaigns that could have been spent in ways that directly benefit their members. As a result, union growth has been limited to the public sector, where the lack of both competition and management accountability allowed their counterproductive policies to go unchecked.”
We couldn’t have said it better.
