REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/05/top-five-things-unions/

Over the past few weeks, right-wing legislators have unleashed a torrent of radical legislation upon the American electorate designed to gut collective bargaining rights and attack the middle class. As these conservatives have launched their assault, a Main Street Movement consisting of ordinary Americans fed up with living in such an unequal country has fought back.

Conservatives have sought to malign this movement by claiming that it is simply defending the parochial interests of labor unions, who they claim are imposing huge costs on taxpayers with little benefit. Yet the truth is that America’s public and private unions have been one of the major forces in building a robust and vibrant middle class and have fought over the past century to improve the lives of all Americans in a variety of ways. ThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all:

1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend:

2. Unions Gave Us Fair Wages And Relative Income Equality:

3. Unions Helped End Child Labor:

4. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage:

5. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act:

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1. Walgreens employees now work 7 days straight

before a day off. This happens once about every 6 weeks. FOR NO GOOD REASON. Is it that they just want to bust their employees balls or what?

Unions - it's not just about money and benefits. It's about decency, humaneness, safety and fairness. Strength in numbers. UNION -YES!

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2. Sounds like when Marriott's owne Great America. They had to let

you have two days off in every seven day period...so occasionally you got two days off, worked ten in a row and then got two more off.