Michigan voting on "right to work", what is the controversy here?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Tagger

Maybe do a study on Labor history and see why unions came about .. Now if we can just roll back these child labor laws we could compete in the world . I think you may get your wish and see unions go .

"Maybe do a study on Labor history and see why unions came about"

I know why they came about, and back then, they served a legitimate purpose. That was then. Today, we have federal laws that offer many of the same protections that unions fought for back in the day.

In the case of public unions...Tagger, are you suggesting that without unions, the general public would expect teachers to live in a trailer and eat cat food? Because I don't hear anyone saying that. What people like me are saying, is that you can't give cops a $50,000-a-year pension at age 45. We simply cannot afford to do that.

There are lots of middle class folks who are not in unions. What unions (particularly public unions) demand, hurts every single one of us.