Now, why would corporations be anti-union?

To begin with, as was the case in the two bits of history I related yesterday, the less the workers are paid, the more profit for the company.

Without job security that comes with a contract, people who ask for more money or decent working conditions can simply be let go.

And with workers kept as drone individuals, there is little pressure for the bosses to treat employees humanely and as more than nameless, faceless slaves.

I have taught in four states where not all public employees were required to join a public employee union, bot in all but one, they could still be charged a small percentage of the full union dues to help defray the costs of bargaining  the contract that benefited both members and non-union members, and to help with the cost of representing employees in the grievance process.

In one state, the public employee union could not charge this “shop fee”, so non-members shared in all the benefits of collecting bargaining without having to help in any way, and they had to be  represented by the union in grievance proceedings without having paid a cent toward the cost of the process.

Many of the non-union people saw something un-American with unions, even anti-Christian, but oddly they never turned down the improved benefits the union got through collective bargaining.

In essence, they were free-loaders who got the benefits paid for by their fellow employees while condemning their fellow employees for being in the union.

This is what “right to work” laws are all about. Their main purpose is to drain unions of money, membership, and political influence. States with right to work laws have weakened unions, resulting in stronger corporate influence in politics and lower wages.

In my year as a union building representative in the state without a shop fee, besides being the ones who told us at the beginning of each negotiations session that we had better get them a good raise, the majority of grievances filed for an alleged violation of the contract came from non-members who consistently reminded me that the union had the legal obligation to represent them.

The more union members the stronger the workers are, and that is why corporations want them ended. Minimum wage exists only to keep the corporations from paying less.

Corporate America dreams of destroying organized labor because it eats into their ability to amass unlimited profits. Workers who create the profits by their productivity would be denied any share in them while those who produce nothing gain.

There are close to 15 million union members in America evenly split between public employees, who hold government jobs, and employees of private companies.

“Right to work” laws are the most effective tool for destroying union membership, because such laws in essence allow any worker in a unionized workplace to enjoy the benefits of a union for free, or put another way, they get to spend other people’s money on themselves.

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Republicans would love to pass a national “right to work” law,that would supersede the power of blue states and make the entire country hostile ground for union organizing, and with Trump in the White House, a man without any history of treating workers decently when it comes to profits, right wing business interests have an ally.

In Rachel Howland’s day, there was right to work that had the accompanying attitude that, although you had a right to the job, you had no right to a living wage, decent working condition, the 40-hour work week, equal pay for equal work, sick leave, weekends, or overtime pay, and you should be happy you have a job regardless of the deplorable pay and working conditions.

The results of the Janus v AFSCME will affect all workers, not just public employees.

Whatever working conditions exist presently could be taken away with no recourse.

Considering how bad economic inequality is now, it will get worse as the benefits of worker productivity will go more to those who do not produce, and less to those who do.

Without unions the workers will lose political power, but corporations will have their political power increased with no balance.

That is why unions are targeted for systematic destruction.

If the younger generations think things are bad now, they need to pay close attention or it could, and, depending on the SCOTUS ruling, will get worse.

The middle class was created by unions. Without them the middle class will be the empty space between the “haves” and “have nots”. In other words, there will be no middle class.

And, young ones, those of us who benefited by unions are old, retired, and heading toward being on the other side of the grass. It is our past. What you face is your future , one that will lack a living wage, decent working condition, the 40-hour work week, equal pay for equal work, sick leave, weekends, or overtime pay,

Protect it.

Don’t passively accept the self-serving false statements about unions spewed by corporations.