White Privilege and Unions
Someone showed me this quote today, and I had a chuckle.
It is a little inappropriate, but can be extended to a variety of peoples not taking responsibility for themselves or for their children, and wanting others to pay for the omission..
"The notion that a group of persons are responsible for the actions of their forefathers by a group that doesn't take responsibility for their children."
BTW, we had a minor unionizing attempt as one of our factories. Interestingly support was polarized around ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic workers overwhelmingly wanted the union. Vietnamese and other Asian peoples (much more recent immigrants) were dead set against it. White peoples were split.
It is interesting how significant cultural inertia is.
It is a little inappropriate, but can be extended to a variety of peoples not taking responsibility for themselves or for their children, and wanting others to pay for the omission..
"The notion that a group of persons are responsible for the actions of their forefathers by a group that doesn't take responsibility for their children."
BTW, we had a minor unionizing attempt as one of our factories. Interestingly support was polarized around ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic workers overwhelmingly wanted the union. Vietnamese and other Asian peoples (much more recent immigrants) were dead set against it. White peoples were split.
It is interesting how significant cultural inertia is.
However there may be blowback.
The next person who tells me to "check my privilege" can go hunting for his teeth on the floor.
that said i launched a campaign to become president of the pilot union on the ESOP platform (make the pilots owners of the company and hire our own management)...scare tactics won out, but time and events proved me right...management bankrupted the company and shed the pilot retirement program in bankruptcy...each pilot's retirement check was 7 figures...all lost)...i retired before the bankruptcy and took mine out...
ESOP stands for Employee Stock Ownership Program...a Federal law...
the acquisition of the ESOP would have required that the pilots go without retirement contributions for 3-4 years while acquiring stock...i would have pressed hard to get flight attendants and mechanics on board...then maybe 2 1/2 years...but in the end it was a madhouse of finger-pointing and a loss of focus...there are tremendous tax advantages to ESOP (written by democrats for unions)...taxpayer ends up paying $.40 of every dollar spent to acquire assets (airplanes, etc)...write-offs are accelerated...and so on...the long run would have been very profitable and was the ONLY path to preserve the retirement plan...it was very frustrating trying to deal with 10,00+ pilots...like i said i had support at the highest management levels and the White House...i think i blew it, but i had tremendous forces against me and the mud started flying...i did not have the organization to deal with it all...the union tried to get me fired over it, but i had a back-door to the CEO and survived that...in the end, i just shrugged let them to their demise...what a lesson right out of Atlas Shrugged...i am at peace now with everything, but it is forever sad...like what is happening to this once great and promising country...
Unions, themselves, just like Karl Marx...feel they should live off the value creation of others and doing the Least possible in return.
So why must the rest of Western Civilization, primarily White... take the brunt of this crap? It would seem, we are the only one's to get off our asses and create value for the rest of collective monkey asses of the world.
(Monkey's, BTW, come in all shapes, sizes and colors) so don't think you can put that one on us.
In short: unions had a major hand in repressing blacks and continue to do so today.
Any other Value creator would just adapt and compete without any special treatment.
The notion, held by a group that does not take responsibility for themselves or their children,
that another group are responsible for the actions of their ancestors.
When written clearly, maybe my words can be improved, it is an awesome statement.
Where does the thought come from?
I think it is misquoted in the header.
1. Someone will make me rich
2. I will make someone rich
3. I will make myself rich
Which would you hire?
Someone with actual facts can correct me, but my perception is:
Asian countries- Many have widespread mandatory union-like organizations.
Latin American countries - Unions less common
African Americans - Were historically not part of US unions.
European Americans - Historically controlled US unions, but unions have become less powerful so maybe half of them have experience with unions.
Under this hypothesis, the more you know about unions the less you like them.
BTW, I could not understand the quote. I think a word is missing. I don't understand it.
My experience with Asian Americans is they are very reluctant to pay union dues.
http://www.shmoop.com/history-labor-u...
Don't know what is missing from the quote. Makes sense to me.