Now that I belong to a dues-paying board, I have some definite opinions about what I like and what I don't like about unions:
PROS: *Thanks to the mandatory ethics courses, our members are more likely to be the good kind of brokers and not the shady kind that people always complain about.
CONS: *The board doesn't accurately speak for me when it comes to supporting certain kinds of bills and state measures. *Every time our board president asks us to support another measure which helps rich people escape new taxes, it makes me want to create a sub-committee of board members who doesn't want to support those measures. *Also, considering I'm perhaps the only salaried broker-assistants in our office, I'd like to also be a part of a committee which speaks to my concerns, but such a thing doesn't exist at the board level.
In other words, I totally empathize with the moderates in Wisconsin who didn't want any of this to happen but are powerless to stop it because their union leaders' voices are stronger and more powerful than theirs.
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Date: 2011-02-25 12:46 pm (UTC)PROS:
*Thanks to the mandatory ethics courses, our members are more likely to be the good kind of brokers and not the shady kind that people always complain about.
CONS:
*The board doesn't accurately speak for me when it comes to supporting certain kinds of bills and state measures.
*Every time our board president asks us to support another measure which helps rich people escape new taxes, it makes me want to create a sub-committee of board members who doesn't want to support those measures.
*Also, considering I'm perhaps the only salaried broker-assistants in our office, I'd like to also be a part of a committee which speaks to my concerns, but such a thing doesn't exist at the board level.
In other words, I totally empathize with the moderates in Wisconsin who didn't want any of this to happen but are powerless to stop it because their union leaders' voices are stronger and more powerful than theirs.