barnessignco

I used to live in IL which is highly unionized. Most trade jobs required a incoming worker to join a union in order to work. When I was eighteen years old, I had to join the Teamsters Union in order to work for a home builder. My job - building forms and laying concrete. If you did not have a union worker performing whatever trade you needed done, you could not have it done. Moved to TX which is a right-to-work state. State law prohibits being forced to join any union in order to work. Unions were probably helpful in times past when there was little or no regulation, or when there were few laws protecting workers, but today I think there are so many laws and regulations on the books that offer protection those in the market workplace. OSHA, EPA, FEDERAL GOVT., STATE GOVT., LOCAL GOVT., UL! Do we really need another organization deciding if we will / can work because we did not get a ten percent pay increase. Not me!