Second, I know a bit more about unions than most people give me credit.  Contrary to the opinions of some who pop by to do a “hit and run” now and then, I’m quite intelligent, and fairly well read, especially when it comes to history.  REAL history, not what’s being passed off in the public schools these days as history.  I lived through quite a bit of it. 

Ok, to the issue.  Why should UPS force their competitor to do anything?  Seriously.  Why?  Because they are the competition?  If UPS isn’t happy they don’t do as well as Fed Ex, perhaps they should look at the way THEY do business.

If you take a good hard look at the history of unions, you find quite a philosophical and physical connection with the Russian Revolution/communism.  The “what’s yours, is mine” mentality.

Was it right to do away with child labor?  Oh, you’re damn skippy.  No kid should have to work 12-14 hours a day, in any job.   Kids are suppose to be kids.  Unfortunately, they aren’t anymore….but that’s a whole different issue than the one at hand here.

I have a bit of inside knowledge about the teamsters union, which I also won’t relate.  Suffice it to say, they aren’t exactly above board, never have been, and probably never will be.  I have some very good reasons to be anti-union.

Yeah, the unions did raise the income of many at one point in time, to the detriment of the society as a whole.  Dictating what a company has to pay also raises prices of everything as well.  The only people who benefited are the unions, not the employees, or the companies.  Nothing has changed

Let’s say I have a company that employees 100 people.  That’s 100 people with a job, an income, to put a roof over their heads, feed their children, and put a little aside each week for the future.  In comes this union thug, telling me I have to allow union for my employees.  I have to pay them a certain amount of money, plus add in a “free” health package, and a substantial pension plan.  Well, what am I going to do?  My employees are happy cuz I’m a good boss, and care about them, and their families, and do my best to make sure their needs are met, especially when it comes to safety issues.  Now, I have to cut into any profits that could have expanded the business, and hired more people.  Instead, I have to cut some of my employees because the company can’t pay all these wonderful benefits.  Jobs are lost, people are out of work, and the company is in decline.  You see, I can’t fire incompetent workers now and replace them with someone who will work for their income, cuz the unions say I can’t.  I lose business.  Have to eliminate more jobs to stay afloat.  And the cycle repeats until I have no choice but to close my doors.   In the meantime, my personal salary drops as well, and my children may not get to go to college either.

You bring up the 60s and 70s.  Were you around then?  Did you watch the news?  Did you see the cost of the ‘family’ car rise to the point fewer families could afford to buy a new one?  Did you see Michigan go into a death spiral?  Did you watch the price of milk rise?  I did.  I listened to my parents discussions.  I watched my dad worry about paying the grocery bill.  And he WORKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT!  Back then, government employees weren’t the highest paid, as they are now.

This whole issue about UPS v FedEx is the fact that one company does NOT want to be unionize, and the other wants to force it to do so.  The push to apply trucking laws to airlines is just an excuse.

And I wouldn’t mind doing away with lobbyists either. 

Apparently, some have less than that…

You can’t blame all the problems of the auto industries on the unions. Remember the corporations’ agreed to the contracts and to there own salaries.

I could go on but it’s getting late, just remember at the unions peek in the 60’s and 70’s in the privet sector was only 20% to 30%. And that raised a whole lot of other workers wages.
Fed-Ex wouldn’t be paying there employees’ what there paying them if it weren’t for the Teamsters