"Goonions hate Freedom"
What do unions want the most, and therefore hate losing the most? If you guessed “money,” then based on that alone, you have good insight into what drives much of American politics. Unions love money. Unions especially love taking money out of workers’ paychecks involuntarily when they can do so under color of the law. This is why unions absolutely hate news stories like this one,
“The 2011 state law that all but ended collective bargaining for most public workers has hit Wisconsin’s second largest union particularly hard.
“The latest tax documents available show combined income of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) dropped 45 percent in 2012 — the first full year of the law, according to The Capital Times.
“In 2011, the four councils that make up the state organization reported a combined income of $14.9 million. In 2012 that dropped to $8.3 million. Dues revenue dropped 40 percent to $7.1 million.”
What has hit unions in Wisconsin so hard is the part of the 2011 law that Walker shepherded through the Republican-controlled state legislature that allows workers to refuse to “donate” funds from their paychecks to the unions. In essence, this law helped Wisconsin to take another step towards becoming a right-to-work state – one in which workers themselves are free to choose whether or not to join a union shop. Many workers in Wisconsin were using their newfound freedom to stop the union bloodletting from their paychecks.
Unions hate worker freedom. Despite the chest-thumping propaganda that unions “saved the worker in America,” the fact is that unions represent a business/labor model that simply is not relevant to our economy today. This, as much as the increased prevalence of right-to-work laws, is why they are dying out. Instead of adapting to the times, unions generally seek to freeze in place the sort of rust-belt economic model that peaked in the 1950s – which is a great example of the typical intellectual bankruptcy that is rife throughout liberalism. Part of this effort involves trapping workers in union shops were the union will “represent” them at the price of extorted dues taken out of their hard-earned paychecks. Obviously enough, the unions have a vested interest in forcing as many workers as possible to contribute. After all, expensive cigars and Cadillacs for the union bosses aren’t cheap.