What do Liberals in power promise Unions?
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Labor unions donate huge sums of money to politicians.  They expect favoritism once that person get elected.  It is often said that Democrats are in the back pocket of labor unions.  Labor unions have ties to organized crime (i.e. the Mafia).  Often, they expect the politician to look the other way when crime/corruption occurs involving labor unions.
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Liberal Democrats would like to control the citizenry from the cradle to the grave and treat them as property of the government. Just check out some of the NEA's policies about teaching our children. There's a book titled, 'The Giver', similar to 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley, which depicts such a society. The general population would essentially become drones to work FOR the government.\n\nConservatives, usually Republicans, want lesser interference in day-to-day life by the government. \n\nSo to compare safer or better, safer would be under the liberal Democratic scheme wherein everything is controlled by the government. Your daily schedule is planned by the powers that be. But there's no room for individual actions personally or civically.\n\nBetter, would be under the conservative rule, wherein people are allowed to make their own decisions about careers, education opportunites, etc, and let the government worry about the big things like our national economy, foreign policy, etc.
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No, the left doesn't have any definable core. No, they can't cut loose the fringe because the "fringe" is the only part of the left that still supports the looney agenda of liberals.
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The generally accepted definition is that liberals expect government to provide services to all of the citizens, and expect government to protect the freedoms and rights of all citizens.\n\nConservatives generally want less government, which means less government services, less government protection for citizens, and expect citizens to rely only on themselves for their needs and not government.\n\nLook at how the conservative point of view has been corrupted over the past 20 years -- even the Republican platform still states that they believe in less government, yet W has enlarged the government (through the creation of new departments, hiring of employees, etc.) more than any other president since FDR.  Conservatives officially believe in less government spending, yet W has spent more than any president in history, while cutting taxes for the rich so that there is no way to pay for all that spending without borrowing money to run up the biggest deficit in US history.  At the same time he cuts government's services for the needy, he spends our money on defense contractors, needless wars, and incompetent agencies that do nothing to provide any real protection.  "Conservative" has moved away from its original meaning, being taken over by religious fanatics (who want government to do MORE to enforce their own religious rules on all Americans) and by big-money defense/oil companies who want all the government's money but don't want to pay any taxes.\n\nLiberalism has changed as well, though not as dramatically.  Many "visible" liberals today are for everyone's rights except the fundamentalist religions, which they would like to squash.  True liberalism is hard, you need to accept and protect the rights of everyone, even those you don't agree with.  Many current so-called liberals don't live up to that ideal.
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You are right about them being quiet.  Many middle-of-the road Senators have been saying that unions want to unionize the illegal immigrants.
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.... liberal means you want a change... which means you want someone else in office and don't agree with him.. \n\nliberal = you want change...
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Union...so that every employee regardless of rank will be listened to. they will have a voice and they will be well represented.
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c. collective bargaining
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1. It shows the people in the union how powerful they can be when they work together.\n\n2. It is perceived as a direct threat to the companies management and profitability.\n\n3. Our government now in the USA is extremely Pro business and is against anything Big business is against.
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depends what the polls say.. the liberals have no principles. They will vote whichever way the polls say people think.\n\nI call the two mnainstream parties liberatives... same ideas fundamentally, only goal is to win and get into office
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Liberal is the abolition of  regulation so that a person could do what he wants.
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You need to restate that, " will you sell out your right to vote to a party who believes you are ignorant, as long as they increase your welfare and give you special tax credits even though you don't work."\n\nThat is how the liberals get elected, they promise the welfare vote the sun, the moon and the stars to get their vote, then do what they want to do. go figure.
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National Labor Union and Knights of Labor  I think.
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The liberals in the house.
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Get a copy of the union's bylaws.  It should be in there.
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Detroit loves Unions and Democrats, goes hand in hand.\n\nSure, why not, who the hell wants to work their butt off and be rewarded for your own efforts.  \n\nThe union way is much better, everyone gets the same, their are no incentives to do a great job, company goes broke and the the last one out of the plant (and Michigan) can shut off the lights.\n\nUnions are just great, ask the 400,000 underemployed people in this state.
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It's a great big circle of events that not many want to tackle or try to understand. You may think I am off track here but please read on.\n\nAlthough some unions are corrupt, there are many that serve a purpose. CWA and IBEW to name just two. Over the years they have been losing their power due to employees not wanting to spend the extra dollars on representation that doesn't appear necessary at the time. Or, for some reason, do not believe business will take advantage of them. And, when a United States president (Reagan) can terminate an entire work force because of the threat to strike it takes away what power the unions have.\n\nToday, there are far fewer unions representing workers than there were 25 years ago. By the way, 25 years ago, most of us felt comfortable with employment and the long term benefits of staying with one employer. This is no longer true.\n\nEmployers now feel they can freely hire who ever they want because they have no threat of a bargaining entity that, if they (the employer) treated the employees poorly would be threatened with a strike or action by the union.\n\nSo, since employers have the ability with impunity to hire who ever they please, why wouldn't they hire under skilled, low wage earners like illegals, no matter how they speak or write. It's all about profit!\n\nI had a job 25 years ago that paid $11 per hour, at the same time I bought a house that cost: $ 30 thousand. Today, that same job pays $ 17 - 19 per hour, the house: $275 thousand. The math: Wage increase less than 100%. Cost of housing increase more than 300%.\n\nAll I'm saying, nobody is protecting the worker. It won't matter if there illegal unless imagration, border and customs are able to do their jobs. And, employers start paying a fair wage for qualified craftman in most trades.\n\nJust so you know, I'm white collar and voted for Reagan but can see the injustice.