Wednesday, June 6, 2012
ignorance of the electorate
Fox news got a teacher to equate unions with communism in China. She said it wasn't quite that bad- but I bet she didn't talk to any Chinese workers at the electronics, shoe, etc. factories in China. She might have been surprised to find that the Communists don't allow unions. They are too pro-democracy. She also should not be teaching our children if she is so ignorant of this- and of the history of unions and what they have done for her and all workers. Maybe she's never heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? That is what working conditions are still like in China and how they would be here without unions. Without unions (and women's lib) she wouldn't even be teaching if she was married. She would be working a 12 hour day, 6 days a week in a factory where there is no minimum wage, and there is unhealthy air, dangerous machines and not enough exits if there is a fire. Oh wait, didn't that happen fairly recently in North Carolina in a chicken processing plant? Darn those unions and government regulations- if that factory had been obeying those bothersome union rules and government regulations the workers killed in that fire would still be alive.
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