Union's dis0incentive to work

Let's say you want to build something. If the unions get involved, you have to buy materials from
union companies. When hiring, you have to hire union workers. If a worker is a specific tradesman
such as carpenter or plumber or electrician, you can't ask them to do something easily done if it is
outside their "trade". So you have to WAIT for a particular TRADESMAN to show up and do the simple job. You can't even do the job yourself and save the money. That is not the union way.

The
union way demands featherbedding. That means having more people to do the job then is necessary.
And you can't have anyone on the job that is not  union worker - even though they might be better at their work than any union worker and faster at their work than any union worker.  And even though you are financing the project, you can't fix a problem yourself. Your have to again WAIT for a specific tradesman to arrive and do the simple work for which they get paid a rich wage and then the
project they were pulled from has to wait until that tradesman gets back to their area.

And have you ever travelled on the highway during construction season. You will see groups of construction workers standing about doing nothing while one or two other union people are doing the work. That is what unions are about too.

Unions have outgrown todays world where there are too many people for two few jobs. The law of supply and demand needs to be at work and that means unions must accept lower expectations. It is the union pensions that are bankrupting almost all the states and many of the cities in the USA. Take away
the union pensions and all the states have a balanced budget and the same foe all the cities.

And I have to remind you once again who pay for these pensions. It is you and me in our Federal,
State and sales taxes.

 The solution is easy. Let the States go bankrupt and dissolve the union pensions at 10¢ to maybe 25¢ on the dollar. By the way, that would still give union workers over 50% return on the money they contributed.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.