Lill has a few words for the tea baggers who spoke against unions and collective bargaining last night.
Fred,
To anyone who “doesn’t believe in unions or collective bargaining:” Union members and collective bargaining set the standards you enjoy at your place of employment, whether or not you belong to a union. The forty hour work week, scheduled lunches and breaks, workmen’ s compensation, and a five day work week are all standard employment practices because men and women who labored before us stood together and fought for them.
My grandfathers toiled the the coal mines in Virginia and on the assembly lines in Detroit during WWII. Their unions, United Mine Workers of America, and United Auto Workers, made it difficult for them to be fired if they were injured on the job, and if they were hurt, they had medical benefits,