The truth about Labor Day

It is Labor Day, a great day to celebrate the American worker. Since we are all workers (not exactly since some don’t work) I guess this means we are celebrating ourselves. One thing we are not celebrating is organized labor or union bosses. Let's explore.

When it comes to aligning itself with criminality, it is pretty hard to beat the American labor movement. Teachers have been caught engaging in criminality plenty lately. Take the teachers and administrators in Atlanta who soon will be reporting to prison thanks to an incredibly widespread cheating scandal. Why did they cheat? They wanted to rig test scores. This is widespread fraud.

Consider the Philadelphia union slime bags who talk about how much they care about working people. Turns out they were also committing arson and vandalizing churches that chose non-union contractors. This is mob behavior.

Set aside the crime. The great irony is the American labor movement today is the biggest job killer in the nation. Of course the Obama administration has done everything in its power to launder money through labor syndicates since they are important sources of donations and manpower for Democratic campaigns. But the jobs Obama has killed here, are simply resurrecting overseas. Markets avoid protection rackets.

Consider the Obama’s National Labor Relations Board’s political persecution of Boeing. Why? Boeing chose to go to a piece of real estate that it owned and build an assembly plant. Boeing acted like it had the right to choose. Obama's NLRB favors mob behavior.

How about the recent NLRB franchise decision? The NLRB ruled that companies can be held liable for the acts of their contractors despite the fact they are independent businesses that are free to make their own rules and policies.  The union goons, in this desperate instance want their allies the trial lawyers to be able to extort money from franchisers. More extortionist mob-like behavior.

Why are all of these outrageous union-related atrocities happening? It is because private-sector union membership has been steadily declining for decades (job killers). It is down to 6.6 percent of the work force in the latest figures.

Of course there are still new aggressive forms of union cancer. Public-sector unions, which represent more than a third of all government employees, are a separate and distinct disease. As public unions do to taxpayers what private sector unions have done to employers, it will be Chapter 9 bankruptcy (instead of Chapter 11) that sorts out the insolvencies and kills more jobs.

The truth is the market already knows that good workers are extraordinarily valuable. Any time any business loses a skilled veteran associate it is costly. Training replacements is expensive. Good businesses know this and bad ones go broke for not knowing it. Organized labor has nothing to do with this fact.

A world without union bosses is not a world with evil car manufacturers exploiting helpless auto workers. Detroit may be mostly dead, however, drivers all over the world can hop in a new turbocharged Honda Type R Civic made right here in the USA. This car isn’t even sold in the American market. Americans will be driving the NSX supercar, which is built at the same facility in Marysville, Ohio, by highly skilled, highly paid non-union American autoworkers. This is a facility with no UAW bosses skimming cash and destroying quality with union work rules. Honda is successful creating good paying jobs in the United States in spite of the existence of unions, not because of union extortion. Accordingly Honda can close an obsolete 20-year-old facility anytime it deems this necessary and create state-of-the-art new facilities without union interference. The happy results are more products people want to buy, and more American jobs.

Consider that Google offers high wages and rich amenities to its employees. Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft also pay high wages and offer great benefits. No union boss is behind the scenes running a protection racket in Silicon Valley. In the real world, workers get paid more because they produce more, not because there’s some protection racket mobsters are threatening to pass out picket signs.

On Labor Day when you watch the news you will hear a pack of lies from organized criminals like the Teamsters, the UAW, along with most Democrats. They will completely distort what Labor Unions have done for American workers. It is all lies.

American workers are among the most creative and productive people in the history of civilization. It has nothing to do with the corrupt protection rackets established by mobsters. American workers don’t need Obama, Trump, the Clintons, or Bernie Sanders to prop them up. However, what they do need is for big government to get out of the way and let innovators innovate and teams to work together. Don't expect Democrats to every understand this.