Agreed. I have been contemplating dropping out of the National Association of Letter Carriers for a while now. I havent done it yet because our branch president is a good friend of mine who has recently taken over the position, also I do believe management would rape us without them. Last months union newsletter though was the last straw. It basically said if you do not vote Democrat you will lose your job! I am not exaggerating either, it may as well have been written by the DNC.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
bottomset likes to post extreme right-wing opinions, often likely intentionally exaggerated for comic effect.
However, the above is actually a pretty damn good summary of what happened.
Most unions are a corrupt, antiquated mess, and are really hurting the ability for American companies to survive.
Remember in 2003 when big box stores were crushing supermarkets, and the supermarkets had to somewhat cut back the amount they were contributing to the health benefits for employees? The unions freaked out and started striking, completely ignoring that most of their senior employees were grossly overpaid in the first place, and it just wasn't realistic to continue providing such high benefits and salaries for basically unskilled labor.
I am no corporate apologist and am very willing to call out corporate corruption and abuse, but unions are even worse than corporations when it comes to corruption and manipulation.
They make it a huge pain in the ass to drop out too. You have to fill out a bunch of paperwork and submit it to the Washington DC branch within a one week window of the date that you joined. You must send it certified mail with a return receipt requested and present a copy of it to your local branch. If you do all of this this correctly they might let you out. One coworker of mine did all of this last year and they never processed it, he has no recourse but to repeat the process again this year and hope for the best.
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