It's sponsored by two hard core progressives...so you know it will be f?!*ed up. They do that to everything.
People aren't fundamentally ideologically tied. They prefer outcomes to ideology. If I can can get to a desired outcome using my preferred ideology great. If I can't my chosen representative is going to make some pretzel logic move on the campaign trail or house floor to justify getting me there via some other means and attempt to portray it as consistent.
If people actually look at history, they will see that unions have accomplished a lot. Period. Are there examples where unions have not been productive? Sure. Corporations have paid politicians lots of money to distort our views on the matter as have unions. So much so that the common man typically sees unions as awesome or a sh*t stain on humanity when in reality unions are neither.
College football, when I was young was such a passion it was unreal. It was a paradise to me. Unfortunately, like the old Eagles song said “...you call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”.
Unions gave labor a voice when they needed it in the 30’s thru the 60’s. They abused the power they had gained and helped to drive the cost of labor beyond what it was worth in the 70’s thru 90’s.
I have worked in companies that have non union workers and union workers. The non-union workers were treated better than the union workers, and that was required by the union. Unions require that companies treat their union employees like irresponsible children. We literally could not treat them like responsible adults, union contracts required that we treat them horribly. My wife is a member of the teachers union, and by law they are not allowed to strike. So the union has absolutely no power to negotiate. They all spend $700 per year for dues, and the teachers union does absolutely NOTHING for them. The sole purpose of the teachers union is to launder money for the democratic party. Democrats give money to teachers, who then turn around and send it back to democrats as political donations. Rather than reward good teachers, they reward teachers for longevity, so there are tons of bad teachers in the system. They never weed out the dead wood, like most private companies do.
Over-priced union labor huh? What are corporations and shareholders not making enough money as it is? Unions pushing for better wages, benefits, and working conditions is a good thing. Holding back technological or company progress is a bad thing and something I'm against.
Yeah it’s a good idea in theory, but how do you pay people full salary to retire at 40? It’s not like cities are having trouble finding firefighters. Pensions for public employees are bankrupting California.
Pelosi, Newsom and the rest of the liberal idiots are doing their part in bankrupting CA with their lovely tent and sanctuary cities.
Yes in theory unions are good. But like anything they are run by humans and we are imperfect so the institutions are imperfect. I honestly have no idea what should be done about paying players. Ideally, they would get some compensation but what these kids don't realize is it's not going to be NFL money and it's going to dry up very very fast. Most colleges will most likely have to shut down all athletic programs because they simply won't be able to afford to pay the athletes due to issues with Title IX. Once these football players are getting their fair share it destroys the whole business model. Football and Mens Basketball to a smaller degree finance the olympic and women's sports. Without that financing most schools will not be able to afford to have athletic programs. I think the Power 5 and a few others probably stick around but the Group of 5 schools and other programs like UNO will have no choice but to close up shop. These kids should be careful what they wish for because they just may get it.
