Proud union members check in please!

[gizmo1979]

There has been some serious Union bashing going on in this board.We need to stand up and tell them why we're proud to be union members!They think we're greedy and the demise of western civilization as they know it .So speak up before there are none of us left at all!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Will unabashed union suporters work too?

:-)

I mean we need a strong labor movement to stand against the fascist, end of discusion

[gizmo1979]

11. You betcha!

Check the union split post.

[IChing]

2. I support the unions, retired union here.

[gizmo1979]

12. Thankyou for all your

hard won victories that have helped my generation of union employees!

[mike_c]

3. Currently California Faculty Association...

...formerly Communications Workers of America. I am proud to be a union member. I have a decent contract, with wages and benefits the CSU would dearly love to throttle, because of the power of collective bargaining. We need more, but we wouldn't have what we have without the union.

on edit-- BTW, our graduate student TAs just organized under the UAW. They won a contract with major improvements in salary, benefits, and working conditions. WOOOHOOOO!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. GOOD

I do remember my days as a GTA... can we say nightmare?

[gizmo1979]

14. Way to go!

People call us greedy we're not greedy,we are looking out for our families and what we feel is right!If not for unions everyone would work for wal-mart wages!

[Dr.Phool]

5. United Transportation Union (retired)

I think the only people who bash unions, are those that can't join them.

Or too dumb to qualify for a union job.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I agree!

And Hard Core Freeper Trolls!

[gizmo1979]

17. Amen union brother

and thank you for your hard won battles making it easier for our generation of union members to carryon the tradition!

[JLuckey]

33. UTU also,

30 years, my job would have been hell without a union.

[Dr.Phool]

36. 31 years here

Retired on RRB diasability.

[noiretextatique]

6. former UAW member, local 2103

which was just mother jones magazine and the sierra club at the time, but may include other workers now. my dad is a retired UAW member.

[blueknight]

9. brotherhood

of locomotive engineers here!

[gizmo1979]

18. I'm also UAW proud.

I really look up to retired UAW you guys won some hard fought battles!

[POAS]

7. UAW and proud

The company I work for has several plants scattered around the country. Ours is the only unionized plant and, not surprisingly, the only profitable plant.

[gizmo1979]

21. That's another myth about union

workers not caring about their product.BS we care about the quality of the items we make,and we're dam good at what we do!

[ben_thayer]

8. AFSCME Skilled tradesman

I'm sure there are some who would prefer the "good old days" of .15 a day 7 day a week sweat shops and an early death. I'm not one of them.

[BayCityProgressive]

13. Proud CWA here!

[gizmo1979]

24. My wife works in a CWA plant.

[gizmo1979]

22. I tried to explain all that the

union has done to the union bashers in the other post,but they just think we are as bad as the repugs.If they only knew what the unions have all done for them!They'd all be still working for the robber barons!

[bennywhale]

15. I'm English and a proud union member. My Grandad

was at the heart of the union movement here in Britain and that movement did more for ordinary working people than anything else.

Why on earth would there be union bashing on here? That certainly wouldn't happen in Britain.

The only way the weak can be strong is to organise into groups.

United we stand divided we fall. If the whole of America were in unions think what you could do to bush. "Unison" one of the biggest unions in Britain has balloted its members and come out against compulsory ID cards fopr all ciotizens, so it doesn't just have to be work issues it can be political.

Organise and be powerful. Don't and be exploited

[gizmo1979]

25. I really don't know why they

are bashing us.You're absoulutely right about the political side of it.Unfortunately alot of the younger union members think they know better and vote against the union's wishs but we're working on it!

[Snotcicles]

16. Teamster for twenty two years Steward for nine of those.

I think any worker that does not agree with collective bargining is a fool.

[gizmo1979]

26. Absoulutely! We need more union not less!

[silverlib]

19. Proud to be married to a member of the Carpenters and Millwrights Union

n/t

[gizmo1979]

27. Thanks for checking in

let everyone know you're proud!

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Ex union member here

When my union was good, it was wonderful. But when it got bad, I got out.

[gizmo1979]

28. sorry to hear you had a bad experience.

try to be an agent of change don't give up!

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. My union was literally taken over by a group of radicals

and they have done more damage than I can detail here.

It's a very sad story. And membership has continued to drop while this group has been in charge. I can only pray that eventually someone else will step in and have them voted out of office.

[SlowDownFast]

23. UAW member here

and proud of it!

[gizmo1979]

29. Thanks Everyone for restoring my faith

in the power of collective bargaining!You've all been great!UNION PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freedomfried]

31. Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) District -1 here!

Ship your cargo US flag!

US Merchant Marine!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

32. Sheet Metal Workers Local 104

And damn proud! Good wages, good benifits, and people to stand behind me when the owners try to exploit me for their greater profit!

[newswolf56]

34. Absolutely proud former union member absolutely supportive of unions:

Belonged to the ANG (American Newspaper Guild AFL/CIO) at two different papers years ago and defiantly (but unsuccessfully) tried to bring ANG into two other papers. Unfortunately ended up mostly working for non-union papers -- in this shrinking business you go where the work is -- and as a result I have no pension at all other than Social Security.

The exploitation of workers today is rapidly becoming as bad if not worse than it ever was -- the instruments are different (keystroke monitors as opposed to foremen with truncheons) but the malevolence of the plutocrats is ever the same.

I've noted the union-bashing here on DU too: it's an expression of the venomous class hatred that lingers as part of the legacy of the Vietnam Era.

We need a great awakening, but sadly I do not think it likely to happen; today's youth have been brainwashed into a permanently zomboid state of moral imbecility: too pathologically self-centered to empathize even with a biological brother or sister, much less metaphorical kinfolk in some workplace. The notion of "solidarity" is not only beyond their comprehension -- it is utterly alien to their bottomless selfishness. (Note what happened to Moore's heralded "youth turnout" last fall: it stayed home, too busy playing video games or listening to iPods to bother going out to vote.)

[Nay]

35. Proud former union member! (Postal Workers)

Son is proud UBEW (United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers)

[Unforgiven]

37. AFSCME Local 3049

State of Florida, Department of Transportation, Operations

Checking in and still around for another day thanks to AFSCME!

[teamster633]

38. Working on my 28th year in...joined in HS and I've been in ever...

...since. As others have mentioned, my job would have been hell if it weren't for the union. All those who are satisfied to depend on the benevolence of their masters maybe deserve to be slaves.