I hate the manipulative wording these lies use. I supposed Conscription (draft) could've been called "The Right to War". With this thinking, right-wing healthcare could be called "The Right to Suffer". How have things gotten so ugly, and why would anyone be fighting on the wrong side of these issues... I don't get it.
@mrfoomanmusic
6 жыл бұрын
Things have always been ugly. This is nothing new.
@mistercohaagen
6 жыл бұрын
@Foo Man, Yeah... but we all have greater access to information; multiple sources of information, lots of dissection of the law proposals, and the full original documents if any member of the public is inclined to do a deep dive into the facts. Plus we have some pretty serious watchdog groups that have been quite consistent and seemingly honorable so far. And we even have comedians with teams of serious researchers pulling every bit of every act and action apart, highlighting any absurdity and hypocrisy. Being informed enough to not get cowed into voting against your own interests seems fairly easy now, especially compared to the age where we only had newspapers, or network-only TV news programs, and needed to use the snail mail system to beg for a copy of actual legal documents. To allow yourself the sheer laziness and ignorance, to get manipulated into a tool of your own victimization is laughably disgraceful and pathetic.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+mistercohaagen, do you refer to the misleading argument Robert Reich made, or the "Right to work" movement? Here is what Robert Reich left out; contrary to the popular narrative some Unions harm workers, they can do that when BY LAW YOU MUST PAY THEM even if all they do with your dues: is given them self pay raises, and spend them on getting more power to charge you more dues. So is it " the wrong side of these issues" to want to stop being forced to pay people who are stealing your money and not representing your best interests? When you get paid $30K, and your union says dues are going up 10%, so the head of the union can keep earning 500K+; would you like to have no say in if you pay the increase? Do you think they would enact union policy like that if you had the right to WALK from paying the union when they abuse you like that?
@mistercohaagen
6 жыл бұрын
@TheShowThatSUX, I have family that are public school teachers in TX & MI, and I've done business with UAW-Ford leadership. I've also done work in auto/aero as a private technology vendor in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. I'm aware that any organization has their share of corruption. *Unions are the lesser of two evils if there ever was one.* Respectfully, please don't be ignorant or cowed by modern rhetoric; study the history; Socialism... is alive and well, and always was. It's really just a question of who gets free money, and who gets shot in the street. laborfilms.com/2013/07/02/a-job-at-fords-pbs-great-depression-series-1993/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March www.dailyrepublican.com/ford_slave_labor.html www.factcheck.org/2011/09/ford-motor-co-does-u-turn-on-bailouts/ www.chevyhardcore.com/news/editorial-did-ford-take-bailout-money-too-yes-they-did/ 1932 - "The police were joined by Ford security guards, and began shooting into the crowd. Joe York, Coleman Leny and Joe DeBlasio were killed, and at least 22 others were wounded by gunfire." "Ford Motor Company (USA) was the owner of a substantial majority of the shares of Ford Werke A.G. during the period of time in which Hitler's Third Reich was in power in Germany 1933-1945." 1940 - "On his 21st birthday, Henry Ford gave his son a gift of $1 million, taking Edsel to a Detroit bank to see that amount of gold bullion." 2008 - "In the near-term, Ford does not require access to a government bridge loan. However, we request a credit line of $9 billion as a critical backstop or safeguard against worsening conditions as we drive transformational change in our company."
@falcosparverius1
6 жыл бұрын
You might as well talk to a wall, people like TheShowThatSUX are the invisible robber barons that benefit from trickle down, right to work...etc. They could care less about society as a whole.
@johnrose1313
6 жыл бұрын
Nothing knocked the wind out of me than when Michigan became a right- to- work law state . Here in Michigan was where Unions first drew there Strength . it said to me the working man was taking a real hit . Don't know were this thing is headed ??
@allanrichardson1468
6 жыл бұрын
The voters in Missouri just voted last night to repeal right-to-work-for-less!
@tristampratorius4709
6 жыл бұрын
+Allan Richardson I saw that, it was an overwhelming vote. People are waking up!
@rubym357
6 жыл бұрын
Congrats Missouri! Fight the race to the bottom.
@allanrichardson1468
6 жыл бұрын
Ruby Marlowe For the workers it’s the only way to get to the top. The oligarchs are the ones racing to the bottom, for the workers, not for themselves.
@johnrose1313
6 жыл бұрын
Have you taken your meds today !!
@geoffdearth8575
6 жыл бұрын
Right to work for less.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Geoff Dearth, what if you make less after Union Dues that they keep raising on you despite NOT HAVING SECURED YOU A PAY RAISE?
@geoffdearth8575
6 жыл бұрын
Are you saying that this happened to you personally? I don't pretend that there are no crooked unions in fact I believe that this is why workers are having problems. However Prof. Reich did recite the litany of things that are worse for workers in "right to work" states.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Geoff Dearth, ok here was my Union Experience: I wanted OVER TIME shifts, my boss wanted me on OT SHIFTS: I almost never got them because I was to low in seniority. I was always early and did my work well, pay raises when to the other guy who was always 5 min late and did less than half the work I did in a shift; again THEY HAD SENIORITY. A promotion is up, my boss wants to give it to me; but first, they have to ask everyone more senior IF THEY WILL TURN IT DOWN, if even one of them won't I can not get a promotion based on my work. And for all this "HELP" I got to give up part of my pay to the Union. Now the dues were not that much, about 1.5%; but when I took a job with a non-union competitor that paid me based on WORK and not on seniority, well I was making 20% more. There was a time when most Unions were about WORK IS A TEAM SPORT, and yes you pay your dues both in working long enough and paying their DUES. But something changed, now far to many unions are about protecting BAD POOR QUALITY WORKERS at the expense of GOOD HONEST HARD PRODUCTIVE WORKERS. That hurts the whole team. The rule needs to be: AFTER 1 year or 2, promotions and pay are based on WORK, not on X YEARS TIME THERE no matter how bad the work is. Unions lost good workers because they drove us off with this crap... I wont like I am glad the new kids wont need to put up with the crap and move to get away from it like I did.
@anthonyfromsiny
6 жыл бұрын
You're real brave - directing ad hominem attacks at someone while hiding behind the safety of a keyboard.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Anthony Brancato, who is your comment directed at?
@bobberry8636
6 жыл бұрын
right to work means that you do as your told or your fired. because of that no matter how good you are at what you do you still don't get the pay your entitled to, no real benefits for the work you do. It's a no win for workers.
@romijn007
6 жыл бұрын
In my country we have mandatory worker participation, health care, schooling, paid vacation and retirement, we all pick up the bill by paying some tax. Oh and we are better off than 99.5% of the american people. You folks have a long way to go!
@GivathBrenner
6 жыл бұрын
What lucky country is that Jeroen? Mr. Phillips Canada
@MiguelSanchez-tu2en
6 жыл бұрын
Jeroen Romijn what country are you from?
@davidlafleche1142
6 жыл бұрын
Socialism is a lie.
@kahaniwala121
6 жыл бұрын
Jeroen Romijn He’s Dutch.
@danmorgan3685
6 жыл бұрын
@David Lafleche Who says he's talking about Socialism? Having a social safety net a la Western Europe would improve the lives of millions of Americans and is still a corporation-centric capitalist system.
@gringogreen4719
6 жыл бұрын
We call them "Right to Starve" states...
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Gringo Green, ever lived in them?
@gringogreen4719
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX What do you think?
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Gringo Green, given that they tend to be more entrepreneurial, and places, while with lower pay on average they also have more average disposable income... I would lean toward "no you have not". Every person I have ever known to come from BLUE PRO UNION state to a red or mixed low cost of living state MARVELS at HOW CHEAP RENT IS, and how they are earning less but can save more and spend more on the fun they have.
@gringogreen4719
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX Guess again!
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Gringo Green, well if you have lived in these places, how can you remotely be pro this crap then because you know how some unions come in and try and make good workers with low seniority SLAVES, and it is not like they help the cost of living when they do that.
@arthurfrederickide3605
6 жыл бұрын
Stop "right to work" laws and legislation.
@Lobos222
6 жыл бұрын
"Right to work" area. Hay, Bill. Yeah, I heard you said something I dont like so as your boss, with all the rights, you are fired. But I do good work, show up on time, work overtime.... Yeah yeah yeah, no one said the world is fair. You can just get a similar payed job elsewhere, its soooo easy. Now fuck off! EVERYBODY ELSE SEE THAT?!? Now, back to work! /sarcasm. *That is the true face of "right to work" laws.*
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Lobos222, you are confusing "at will" with "right to work"; and that is how this kind of propaganda has misled you. AT WILL: is the terminate you for whatever reason independent of your work performance. RIGHT TO WORK: Is if your union is stealing you dues to overpay the union boss, or negotiated a contract that hurts you as a worker, and so on... that you can ELECT to stop paying them dues for not being PRO YOU. These are not the same thing or the same laws. Do not be mislead to confise them.
@wbdill
6 жыл бұрын
ALEC is an evil shady entity.
@k9bigdog1
5 жыл бұрын
Don't kid yourself....so is the Chamber of Commerce!
@bryanwa7prc647
5 жыл бұрын
Bill Moyers tells more about ALEC here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/qq-Ku22Im4F2faQ "The United States of ALEC".
@donnydanger273
6 жыл бұрын
The reason we have a forty hour work week, overtime after 40 hours, is because of unions. Also an hourly wage.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Donny Danger, given that both of those are now an INDIRECT SOURCE of poverty in the USA why is that a good thing?
@donnydanger273
6 жыл бұрын
So let's go back to $1 a day for 16 hours. My father worked that when he was young. That's what the right wing and corporations want.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Donny Danger, first WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? I would like to know what that number is adjusted for inflation. And more relevant: do you work for min wage? What the "right wing" wants on that issue is DO NOT MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR PEOPLE TO SAY YES TO WORK THEY WANT. You claim hyperbolically that if MIN WAGE = $1 a day for 16 hours that is what you would make. Well, do you only make $7.25 per hour now? PRO HIGH MIN WAGE wants tip workers raised to that, THE TIP WORKERS DONT WANT THAT because they make more getting tips than they ever would pay by the hour like you want for them. Do you know how many LOW BASE PAY + Performance gigs I have had over the years? $/H was LOW, but I also got $/TASK FINSHED, once I got good at the work OH WAS I MAKING BANK. High min wage makes learning on the job like that a crime. Now who will that help?
@donnydanger273
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX that was before 1938 and it was 25 cents per hour when first enacted. Just because you don't think your labor isn't worth much doesn't mean everybody should do the same.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Donny Danger, well that would be $5.76 per hour adjusted for inflation, so what are you complaining about? Min wage is now $7.25; that means it is more because $5.76 would be the same. iF YOUR LABOR IS WORTH MORE WHY WOULD YOU SELL IT FOR LESS THAN IT IS WORTH? You are not helping people, you are making the poor screwed, basically all min wage is you telling millions of people they are to poor to be worth anything at all.
@billythedead7127
6 жыл бұрын
Man do I love common sense videos with useful information not a bunch of crap
@Junior_Rocky
6 жыл бұрын
billy the dead - Robert Reich’s videos are always full of useful information.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+billy the dead, do you claim this propaganda is such?
@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45
6 жыл бұрын
Right to work with no pay
@tristampratorius4709
6 жыл бұрын
''In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against be fooled by *false slogans such as right-to-work.''* - Martin Luther King Jr.
@cdeluz
6 жыл бұрын
He perfectly described the state of Gerogia. The reasons he outlined as to why corporations relocate to right-to-work states is why Amazon is considering coming here.
@wolfshade2890
6 жыл бұрын
They neglected to add "for less" at the end of "right to work".
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Carla Rae, that is both hyperbolic and misleading. you forget that when you are forced to pay a union THEY, NOT YOU get part of that pay. If you are paid 12% more BUT TAKE HOME LESS than the person paid 12% less did you win? Or was the only winner the Union that you paid to make you poorer on net?
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
When you're paid 12% more but take home slightly less, but get better benefits and labor protections than the person paid 12% less, and live in a local economy where everyone else is getting those benefits and protections, then yes, quite possibly you did win.
@davedee7521
6 жыл бұрын
Trump likes "Alec" as long as it's not followed by "Baldwin"
@italiancapo7
6 жыл бұрын
Tired of all the rhetoric against unions and the working class.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Born2succeed, what about all the workers who do not like that they have a bad union? Why be anti-worker aginst them?
@Zephyrs009
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheShowThatSUX if theres a bad union, make a new, good one. Same reason you don't go to a crappy store.
@UBI_NOW
6 жыл бұрын
right to work is force labour
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Duct Tape, HOW? Why is it ok for FORCE PEOPLE A UNION FAILS TO REPESENT WELL TO PAY UNIONS DUES? And "force labour" to let workers fire a union if they want to?
@conflictofincest6629
6 жыл бұрын
I love ❤️ your channel
@Bodhi1satva
6 жыл бұрын
Here in Utah we call it the “Right to be a Slave state”!
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
If you want to be a slave trying living on the streets in California. They can't afford the union utilities, housing prices, teachers, and property taxes. Right-to-work makes you live better.
@Bodhi1satva
6 жыл бұрын
pirucreek Right to Work makes the rich richer and supports the Oligarchs not the middle class. Unions have nothing to do with setting prices, corporations do that and your elected officials set taxes. Maybe if you had the right to collective bargaining and the support of your coworkers you could actually afford to live.
@jimburig7064
6 жыл бұрын
Right to work status takes place behind closed doors. It's not on a ballot for voters to choose or reject. A state just becomes a "Right to work" state and it's not what it sounds like. It's just the opposite. Workers have no rights.
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
Republicans love to name things like that. The "Patriot" Act, Operation Enduring "Freedom", and so on. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
@otakon17
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta love how this hasn't affected Police Unions one iota.
@davidbergin6184
6 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of working for a Democratic candidate for Congress back in 1974. He called Right to Work laws “Right to Work for Peanuts Laws”. Unfortunately, he lost.
@benb3316
6 жыл бұрын
Talk about a definition of "Doublespeak" "Right To Work" meaning the opposite.
@jiujitsuartist86
6 жыл бұрын
I'd be a real scumbag to stop paying dues. My union has helped me so much. I
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
Ya your union helped you at at the cost of people paying for your services and people wanting to work there. Can unlimited people come in an work at your salary? What is your product?
@jiujitsuartist86
6 жыл бұрын
@@freetrailer4poor Outside electrical contractor such as powerlines, traffic, and street lighting.
@busterbrown446
3 жыл бұрын
The forced arbitration agreements that companies make you sign are disgusting. There isn't an opt out option unless you don't want the job.
@PvblivsAelivs
2 жыл бұрын
So you consider it like being forced to join a union. "There isn't an opt out option unless you don't want the job."
@845835
6 жыл бұрын
Those in right to work states have convinced themselves that unions are all bad and to have unions come in will turn their state into the next Detroit. They have also fallen for the scam that one day they too will own their own company and become rich and would not want unions to deal with when this happens. They cling to these beliefs while toiling in low paying high turnover temp agency jobs. They either have no health insurance or what they have covers nothing and they continue to find themselves in jobs instead of careers. Reaching retirement in right to work states usually means dying of a heart attack at work.
@bobchristopher5842
3 жыл бұрын
Well said Mr. Reich. The state I reside in is a perfect definition of what you just conveyed. Low wages, poverty, virtually nothing allotted for schools, and chamber of commerce indoctrined towns and cities. And lastly metaphorically and literally 49th in the USA.Can you guess which state? Fortunately I'm.a retired union ironworker with a pension. Fight right to work laws to gain a fair living.
@sherlogic1256
3 жыл бұрын
And living in a right to work state, everyone I’ve heard talking about unions absolutely hate them, minimum wage earners, and teachers. It’s no wonder we pay $7.25 an hr, no unions, and teachers are the worst paid out of all states around us while also failing the most kids.
@IvoMiller
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve known about the Chamber Of Commerce for Decades
@Bram06
6 жыл бұрын
Hey Robert, I have an idea. Maybe you should review some videos made by Prager University? I'd like to see you tear them apart
@armandhammer2235
6 жыл бұрын
Unionizing means the family members and friends of the union bosses work when there isn't a lot of work to be done. Little man has something called "tenure", good luck with that in what you do if you're not a college professor.
@AlexM-wq7in
6 жыл бұрын
The problem here is that Unions are mandated by law to represent all workers in a workplace including those who don't want to be represented by a union or pay union dues. Let those who don't want to pay dues represent themselves.
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't really be feasible to separate out the conditions a union negotiates for, for their members, and labor conditions at the shop overall. It's not like management is going to lower wages and make working conditions worse for non-union employees, in full view of a union - but if there is no union, they might very well do that for all employees.
@MrMarinus18
Жыл бұрын
So....people in the US who don't WANT to be citizens should be exempt from paying taxes? This is another one again of those stupid arguments that individual illusion of freedom should be allowed to come at the cost of collective good. Mandatory fees make it a lot easier for people to pay their dues and also serves to protect them from company harassment to get them to not join the union.
@helenpatterson3858
6 жыл бұрын
Yep... my son says we have a right to work walking along the hi-way gathering cans and hope to make enough money to buy a sandwich. Ha ha ha ha ! It's going to get worse here in Arizona.
@edwardmaxwell3951
6 жыл бұрын
Corporations carefully and patiently undid all the worker and consumer protections passed after the Great Depression. We are now living in the #SecondGildedAge, right before... the #SecondGreatDepression...
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
All those laws are basically there and more. Free trade allowed companies to move their labor to China and other countries.
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
*Gilded Age. Not Guilded Age. Guilds are like unions, and they're going away. "Gilded" like, gilded with gold, like "a bird in a gilded cage" (for examples, see the President's personal apartment in his skyscraper... and his wife).
@edwardmaxwell3951
6 жыл бұрын
Jessica Lee oops you're right
@annar6591
6 жыл бұрын
Good information! The rich get richer and the poor get poorer! I can appreciate America's laws and programs created to help the people; however, I think that many of these need to be updated to match our current economic demands. Not destroy the programs as trump does, but rather enhance what is there.
@artimiss1238
3 жыл бұрын
I live in a right to work state, and i once got a work related injury(torn rotator cuff) at a factory that prevented me from working but since it wasnt caught on camera, i was denied compensation and insurance didnt cover surgery so i was put thru 3 months med leave for normal recovery? and was terminated the day i came back. They didnt even tell me why, just to clean out my locker and i was escorted by security. Even better is that they wrote down that i quit and i couldnt get unemployment. I tried to fight it but it never went thru. It taught me to ALWAYS record your meetings with whomever, so you have proof.
@amethystsamia
5 жыл бұрын
Preach it Brother Reich! It’s hard to fight right-to-work laws when our own federal government has the same right to work policies employed in regard to its own union. President of my local for many years and we had very little power. Couldn’t bargain for wages or benefits, and had to represent those who chose to ride our backs. I I’ve seeing all these people bitch about the stuff the union demands. Are you all aware that management has to agree to everything before it becomes a reality? That means management of these employers is responsible for all that has gone wrong.
@rickescamilla5446
6 жыл бұрын
As a member of local union i am glad I v never got out just to work for cash , like so many of my friends did. I worked 27 good years and now I enjoy a nice monthly pension from my union . Sorry these kids my not enjoy the same Benny’s I have. ( live better work Union). It’s not a perfect system but better that than what most companies offer to there workers.
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
Most people that don't work for unions don't get paid in cash. They have a payroll with benefits.
@alistairmackintosh9412
4 жыл бұрын
@@freetrailer4poor No, most waged non-union workers do not have benefits.
@vincentkrommenhoek7431
5 жыл бұрын
You truelly are a great teacher. Thanks for the insight...
@curtbarnes4294
6 жыл бұрын
At least it's in quotation marks. But why did we buy into their terminology? "Right to work," my ass. "Right to life." "Death tax."
@walterfielding9079
6 жыл бұрын
I still support Right to Work, because if a worker doesn't want to join a union, he shouldn't have to be forced into one!! The union shouldn't get workers who are forced in, it should be a club, where if you pay then you're a part of the union. If you don't pay then you're not part. But nobody should be forced out of a career opportunity because they have to join a union. If somebody doesn't want to be in a union then they shouldn't have to be.
@MrMarinus18
Жыл бұрын
So.....just because someone was born in the US they shouldn't be forced to be a citizen and pay taxes yet they should still be entitled to make use of all the public infastructure? It's the same thing. Collective benefits go hand in hand with collective commitments. If you want to reap the benefits from something you have to pay your fair share.
@walterfielding9079
Жыл бұрын
@MrMarinus18 Citizenship is entirely different than being in the workplace. I shouldn't be forced to join a labor union to work for a company. I should have every right to negotiate a contract independently or decide to join the union. Paying taxes and using the roads and police are a duty and public service, respectively. Forcing unions upon workers is wrong and it violates my right as an individual. It should be the decision of individual workers not an arbitrary collective.
@MrMarinus18
Жыл бұрын
@@walterfielding9079 That collective is not arbitary and those workers benefit from those union actions. And what exactly do you have in your head when you say "forced to join a labor union"? That being part of a company comes with certain expectations is to be expected. You are expected to do a job after all. Why those expectations need to be exclusively to the benefit of the capitalists and can not be in the interests of your fellow workers makes no sense to me.
@MrMarinus18
Жыл бұрын
@@walterfielding9079 To me this seems more like it's that irrational desire for the illusion of freedom over the reality that you have obligations when you have a job. Drawing an arbitary line between duties to the company and duties to a union feels like buying into the propaganda of corporate executives. That corporate obligations are positive and union obligations aren't.
@walterfielding9079
Жыл бұрын
@MrMarinus18 Because ultimately it should be the choice of an individual to join. It shouldn't be decided for them when it's their career and the way they make money. Unions shouldn't have a monopoly over workers, they should convince individuals to join them willingly, not have laws that force people to pay dues into an organization they may not agree with. You aren't forced to pay money to a church, yet churches are widely beneficial for society as they run a multitude of charities, schools, and offer religious services to people. You can choose to support a church and be member if you so choose. Unions are the same way but with workers. If I don't want to have the protection of the union than so be it. The government shouldn't force me to join a club even if it's beneficial. I should be the one to decide what is and isn't beneficial.
@Stevon987
6 жыл бұрын
Not funny how the name of these laws is sarcastic
@skipsteel
6 жыл бұрын
Right-to-Work just doesn't ring true in the ear, like the Right-to-Walk or Run or Breath. It is self evident and needs no GOP Gerrymandering, for the corporate donor class.
@redsox4life
4 жыл бұрын
They need to call it RIGHT TO FIRE.
@edwebber4059
6 жыл бұрын
Missouri voted it down I got some hope very little but hope
@corneliusx1811
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob. Include in your a presentation the impact of foreign competition and "free trade" and the WTO, etc., on the bargaining power of American Labor union or not.
@ZZ_Tops_007
6 жыл бұрын
VOTE BLUE EVERYONE TELL ALL YOUR FREINDS FAMILY AND YES YOUR ENEMYS TOO
@Craxin01
5 жыл бұрын
This is THE problem with common sense. It's common to believe that paying a union dues from your own wages means you'll have less money. Some things are counterintuitive. You might have to pay a few dues, but what you get out of that is far more value for your remaining wages. You spend less on health care, get more paid vacation and sick leave. You get less stress at work because conditions are safer and more functioning for you as a worker. Then there are retirement benefits, meaning you still get paid when you stop working. All in all, you might take home a few less dollars, but the ones you do take home go a lot further.
@Junior_Rocky
6 жыл бұрын
I appreciate his speaking truth to power. If I lived near Berkeley, I would definitely take his class!
@kevinmackfurniture
5 жыл бұрын
I moved from Massachusetts to Colorado 20 years ago. Working in maintenance for a Major hotel chain, I went from $15 an hour to $8 for the exact same job. Although the cost of living Was less in Colorado, the difference wasn't enough to cover the loss. I moved back to Massachusetts, despite how much I loved everything else Colorado had to offer.
@davescheider8073
2 жыл бұрын
Why should I as an employee have to pay a 3rd party for the ability to work at an employer. It is corruption.
@ramiroacosta7529
3 жыл бұрын
I should not be forced to join unions.
@johnellington1932
5 жыл бұрын
Right of No Worker's Rights and Cause Racism.
@erinkavanagh3553
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Imfo.
@agent9809
2 жыл бұрын
Congress / senate should abolish this “ right to work “ in those states
@jdrein9511
3 жыл бұрын
If you are an employee of a corporation and interested in getting a bigger " share of the gains" why not buy stock in the corporation?
@kmarchery
6 жыл бұрын
i really like mr roberts , cartoons . thk you for the presentation . btw unions really bug me (the culture part ) but i would not want to have a world with out them . cheers
@BackpackandGear
2 жыл бұрын
I live in Florida, a Right-To-Work state, where working people have a tremendously hard time earning a living thanks to the Republicans that run this state!
@prestonhanson501
2 жыл бұрын
More like right to be ripped off and be overworked without no extra compensation
@rickraymo1319
6 жыл бұрын
Concur.
@racheljohnhyatt4028
6 жыл бұрын
Or the name should be wrong to work
@TheAvtrey
3 жыл бұрын
Naw, I like those laws suppressing the wages of rural people. I don't want them being able to afford moving in to my neighborhood.
@jimoday2078
Жыл бұрын
The only way unionism will help American workers is if foreign goods are heavily tariff'd. Only that will help our workers, with or without unions.
@johnreid2837
4 жыл бұрын
You couldn’t be more right.
@stephaneauger1036
6 жыл бұрын
great work..well explain thank you
@DB-me7gm
Жыл бұрын
Right to work = right to work for less !!!
@frankgarrett9500
6 жыл бұрын
But my boss says he’s my ‘friend’. He wouldn’t lie now would he!?
@flaviacotton5029
2 жыл бұрын
Right to work means thay can fire you for any reason,including( and I asked this specifically ) if they don't like the color of your eyes.
@northerniltree
6 жыл бұрын
Unions ans unionization have their own flaws. Here in Illinois, the worst run state in the nation owes its debt and dysfunction to an entrenched democratic machine (run for 40 years by the "boss" Mike Madigan) that gets its power, durability and influence from union lobbyists seeking to maintain and enrich those benefiting from the status quo. This state is ruined.
@mk1st
6 жыл бұрын
Agreed, but it doesn't mean that unions can't be run right and work to negotiate reasonable wages and benefits for workers. Learn from mistakes, don't let the bad apples rot the barrel.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+northerniltree, and many WORKERS are sick of stuff like that. In many ways RIGHT TO WORK is workers UNITING AGINST UNION ABUSE OF POWER.
@mk1st
6 жыл бұрын
Well, that's fine when things are going OK but when employees get laid off or wages cut there won't be much power in the individuals. What unions have won as far as workplace improvements really go unseen and are taken for granted....until they are stripped away. And I'm saying this as someone who's never been in one, just observing the historical record: workers did the best when there was a robust union presence.
@NolaGal2601
6 жыл бұрын
This all assumes that people work for a large corporation where unionizing is possible. I work for a tiny company and have done for more than 10 years. So where is the benefit for me?
@williamdavenportii764
2 жыл бұрын
It's like every one has to pay for car insurance but you that is rite to work
@joeydelrio
7 ай бұрын
makes me sick the names they come up with for these laws, why not just call it right to protect children from child rapist
@moneymanfernando1594
5 жыл бұрын
Right to Work for less is abought right, I know.
@pauldow1648
5 жыл бұрын
Surprised Washington State is on list.
@dancharnas6374
6 жыл бұрын
Fine. Thank you. But I think you gloss over a lot of important history that led us from the level of union representation 50 years ago, which at only one-third wasn't all that great but, still, probably, represented the largest and most labor-intensive industries at the time -- steel, railroads, shipping, etc. -- and thus set a bar in wages and benefits that influenced labor negotiations and results for workforces, unionized and not, across the rest of the country and for a long period of time (just a guess). So, what happened between 50 years ago and today? What occurred to reduce and dilute the influence and impact of unions that exposed them and their workers to the loss of reasonable/competitive working wages to the ever-present interests and efforts of the one percent to achieve greater profit margins? Keeping in mind that it was the living wages/benefits these workers received that, at least to some extent, enabled and propelled the consumer-driven economy that buoys US economic performance even today (I grant you that contention may not be correct). But what happened? Why did those unions fail over time to continue represent their members so as to maintain their standing during the progression of the US economy from 50 years ago to today? All due respect, I think it's important to understand the usefulness/effectiveness/limitations of unions relative to advancing workers' interests over time versus the entrenched owner-centric bias of capitalism as it is practiced in the US. I doubt I've stated this well. Obviously, I am not an economist or especially well informed in this subject/topic. Nevertheless, I listened to you and, as you say, worker rights and workers' ability to participate significantly in the economy has dwindled badly. It's not only right-to-work laws that are responsible. If unions were strong, right-to-work laws would be very hard to pass. Why, then? It's not just capitalists always on the hunt for leverage and greater margins. The capitalists were provided an opening, an opportunity to wage a sophisticated, divisive and, yes, successful campaign to undercut unions. It would be useful/instructive in your dissertation to illuminate the what and why of this transition over the last fifty years from strong union-driven workers rights to today's rather less worker-oriented condition. I think it would be instructive and I think you are worthy of this. Thank you again.
@tedphillips2501
5 жыл бұрын
Seeing as how public sector unions blackmailing would-be politicians into giving them what they want in above market compensation and retirement plans will be bankrupting cities and states in the near future, Reich's union argument only makes sense for the private sector where the one labor bargains with has to take the money from his own pocket instead of stealing it through taxes. That union leaders have not kept their membership apprised of how well the pension plans are funded says where their minds are - take your money and run.
@wvu05
6 жыл бұрын
I call it right to work for less.
@ronkirk5099
5 жыл бұрын
Read Robert Reich's book "Saving Capitalism" for the big picture of all these problems with our form of "capitalism". All these problems have a solution if we can just manage the political will thru organizing and VOTING.
@clifarwood9536
5 жыл бұрын
The right to work for less yes reagan was the first down the worker wake up!
@Larrymh07
6 жыл бұрын
Aren't we all 'Right to Work' now since the Janus ruling?
@tristampratorius4709
6 жыл бұрын
Just in the public sector. Private sector workers are unionized or right-to-work depending on the state.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Larrymh07, in the coming years YES; the state by state variations will be if the DEFAULT is "opt-in" or "opt-out". OPT IN: could hurt even good unions because they would need to SELL all new workers on paying in and so earning less on net. OPT OUT: Would mean BAD UNIONS lose people when they screw them as a worker. I would be fine with YOU NEED TO OPT OUT because then that way you are making the efort because you do not like somthing the union has done. That is usualy when most people start wanting to stop paying dues.
@rburke17
6 жыл бұрын
Run for President please. You actually understand policies and are reasonable
@wayneg296
5 жыл бұрын
Vote , Republican! That will fix it!
@amusingbouche4551
4 жыл бұрын
unions have really outlived their usefulness though. unions fight for waste and inefficiency in their current state to bolster their coffers. I want to hire the best and pay them accordingly, I don't want scrubs working for me because I'm required to hire them because the union says I have to
@Ekkie101
5 жыл бұрын
Right-to-work-for-less.
@marknelson463
3 жыл бұрын
It is all about freedom. Are you free or not
@MarcCalvert
5 жыл бұрын
"Right to work" means you have no rights
@bluesage7744
3 жыл бұрын
Commenting for the algorithm
@8460437
5 жыл бұрын
Of course! Republicans are for the little guy........aren’t they?
@vonamarkov1087
5 жыл бұрын
please mute the sharpie noises its like nails on a chalk board
@longho2419
6 жыл бұрын
China don't have minimum wages, Unions ect.
@tristampratorius4709
6 жыл бұрын
The US should never stoop to what they do.
@theodoreroberts3407
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@bold810
6 жыл бұрын
#SplendidCandy Fear Sauce for the Conservative Heart is #SplendidCandy
@bold810
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah.
@prime_optimus
3 жыл бұрын
@@bold810 Forget to change accounts?
@tristampratorius4709
6 жыл бұрын
They should be called ''Right-to-work for less'' or ''Right-to-free-load'' laws.
@racheljohnhyatt4028
6 жыл бұрын
Walmart is right to work
@paladin556
6 жыл бұрын
Im neither for or against unions. Been self employed most of my life, and also had a few good jobs. I am now in a union. My question is that if this union is so great, why am i forced to be in it? If it has benefits beyond what i can get in a non union shop than i and other employees would want to join. I dont like being forced to join. Im not bashing unions. In fact, all the guys i work with are not at all like what i was led to believe by all my conservative business owner friends. However in my area i dont see the higher wages than the non union shops. What i do see is that i make about $4 an hour less than the guy that i run circles around just because he has been there a few years. I cant get a raise based on my skills and merit because the shop is under union contract for pay. So im stuck.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Jessie Hubble, your story sums up what RIGHT TO WORK IS ABOUT. Anti-Union is a separate thing, IMO pay based on seniority rather than performance is one of the things some Unions get wrong. Pensions should absolutely be seniority based, pay more merit IMO. The fact is also the COMPLACENCY you talk about, in that you pay them BUT THEY DID NOT SECURE MORE PAY OR BENEFITS FOR YOU to offset that. Many Unions stopped caring about that because you could not stop paying them. As right to work becomes law of the land you will now have the weapon at the annual meeting to ASK THE UNION to address your grievances or lose your dues. To keep membership and contracts Unions will be forced to set PROGRESSIVE DUES if they keep seniority pay, or change this practice to keep productive members. It is only the death of unions if they keep an anti-worker stance on these issues.
@paladin556
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX. I agree.
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
Force into it, you may mean pay union dues. If you could save the $2 per hour union dues, you would get the benefit of the union without paying for it. The union prevents people from being hired. Say the union pays $30 per hour, there might be 200 qualified applicants for 10 jobs. The 190 are jobless even though they might work for $15 per hour. It destroys the invisible hand. The People that can't get the job and will be disgruntled people. They will lose self esteem. They will vote for Trump. They in Germany would vote for trouble in the 1930s. Unions are a sign of socialism in that there will be winners and losers not based on how hard you work or your knowledge, but who you know and your social status. It all eventually ends in war and in some cases genocide and be-headings. So you can have your punch now, and your spilled blood later.
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+pirucreek, your hyperbolic aside; reasons why liberals should be glad the people HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORK. But it is only delaying what is coming at this point.
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
Pirucreek you think how hard you work or your knowledge makes you a winner instead of who you know and your social status, NOW? You think any of the corporate pro-right-to-work politicians got anywhere in life without help from rich daddy's golf buddies? PLEASE. Do you actually believe it when rich people tell you that if you work hard all your life you'll get rich like them? Because... that's just what they tell you so you won't drag them to the guillotine. If the workplace only has 10 jobs, there are going to be more applicants than spots they can fill. I'd rather be one who gets the job at $30, than give away any bargaining power and work for $15 because I'm desperate. That's why corporations offer such low wages, they know they'll find someone desperate enough to take it, so the executives can get their quarterly million-dollar bonus (part of which comes from government subsidies or "corporate welfare") - then other places have to lower wages to compete with them or go out of business, and the entire area suffers. That's what's been happening since Reagan first nationalized the trickle-down voodoo horse shit they keep trying to pull. Look at the Corporation. Look at the right-wing dismantling of anti-trust laws. Then reconsider what is actually destroying the "invisible hand" (as if that phrase wasn't part of the problem, using laissez-faire capitalism as a justification for an every-man-for-himself world rather than a civilization which is the result of collective action, meanwhile returning to the Gilded Age of mistreated and exploited workers, discrimination-at-will, no workplace safety no food safety no drug safety no regulations, just snake oil salesmen and robber barons).
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
If you want to be happy and live better, move to a right-to-work state!
@ADEehrh
6 жыл бұрын
Unions sound JUST like socialism!
@recoveringnewyorker2243
6 жыл бұрын
I worked "Right to work" 30 years. 1st as an auto mechanic then designing and building conversion vans and then building firetrucks. ALL NON-UNION! In that time I bought a house , 4 cars , good health insurance, took my family to Disney World (several times) , beach trips , movies, nice dinners out etc. There were 5 union drives at the firetruck plant. ALL DEFEATED! The "workers" who were behind the union drives were usually the ones who worked the least, complained the most, and did the poorest quality work! They were the ones who showed up to work 5 minutes late and left two minutes early! They were the ones who went to lunch a minute early and came back a minute late! They were the ones who took 30 minute bathroom breaks and snuck out back for a cigarette when no one was looking. All the while laughing at workers like me, calling us ass kissers, brown-nosers, boot lickers , and the worst of all titles COMPANY MAN! I'd rather have the right to work right then work under a union and have the right to work WRONG! Unions --- More time to do less work and better pay for not getting it done!
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Shepperd November. First, thank you for your work ethic and the fact that it probably saved more than one life from the quality it produced. And, your post perfectly sums up how it is more propaganda than fact to claim PRO-UNION = PRO-WORKER. The fact is if you are really "pro-worker" at times you will be anti-union.
@recoveringnewyorker2243
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX Thank you! At least one person out there gets it!
@TheShowThatSUX
6 жыл бұрын
+Shepperd November, I suspect far more than "one person out there gets it"; the real issue is how many younger people like my self-want to do the work Vs take the easy road of voting them self the results of the hard work of others? Time will tell. I hope that greed is not as prevalent as it seems, because if too many take the easy way, it would be easy to redistribute and liquidate what it took generations to build. That is not the world I want my kids stuck with.
@recoveringnewyorker2243
6 жыл бұрын
TheShowThatSUX the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money Margaret Thatcher
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
I know people at public sector unions work side jobs while they are on the clock and take 2 hour lunches, show up to work 1/2 hour late, then demand they work from home 2 days a week. Even Reich when he started at UCB it was claimed by someone to only instruct like 4 hours a week.
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
Investors and stockholders spent a lot of time and money to build a factory. The factory gets built, many fail, but some go on to be profitable. So this guy advocates the workers have the right to strip the company of profits so they can make more money? Is that not theft and violence?
@jessicalee333
6 жыл бұрын
Making more money is not "violence". Why shouldn't the people who DO ALL THE WORK TO MAKE THE COMPANY MONEY make more money? Why should the people who do all the work give all the money to executives, who then get to decide how much of the money THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MADE THE MONEY get paid? Workers are partners in the money-making process of a business. They do the work that gets the money. Without them, there is no money. Why should they be treated like an "expense" to be minimized? Why shouldn't they have negotiating power in how much of a share they get, out of all the money that they made for the company?
@freetrailer4poor
6 жыл бұрын
Many corporations pay their CEO nothing and the CEO gets zero options. A corporation like a hammer to a carpenter, is just a tool for the employee make more money. The better the tool, the company, the more the employee makes. The carpenter does not have the right to go to the hammer manufacture and demand they lower their price. Yes, the companies need employees, that is why they pay competitive wages. The average profit is about 5% at a corporation. Supose the CEO makes $10,000,000 a year. It does not hurt the employees, it hurts the shareholders. The upper management are representatives of the shareholders, they are selected by the shareholders, employees get paid by the supply and demand of labor. Shareholders are just investors in a company. Public companies make it easy for the poor to invest in new innovative companies. Do you want to be part of a laundromat and liquor store, or intel, tesla, and gilead. Corporations are good, saints, most are run by wonderful people. The problem is government (Warren) and landlords (like Trump) but that is another story. I pray Warren goes to jail for her evil theft policies.
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