Abridged Audiobook
1) Expecting Linda Chavez to be an impartial judge of Labor in the United States takes a strong sense of naivete or willful blindness. She's virulently anti union, despite her long association with the American Federation of Teachers. The facts of American jurisprudence don't support Chavez' points: employers hold far more power over workers than the reverse or employee unions have. Employees may be fired without cause or for reasons other than poor job performance while employers don't face such risks. The power balance is unequal, and unions are the best proven method for maintaining a balance of power. Chavez is wrong that public employees' strikes put Americans at risk. Since 1981, when Reagan fired the ATCs, public safety employees have been barred from striking. Since she worked on that legislation, the conclusion to be drawn is left as an exercise to the student of truthiness.
I learned a few things from this book. I always wondered why the police never arrested union guys when they were committing violent crimes against replacement workers and companies that did not honor the union pickett line. Now, I know that because FDR stacked the Supreme Court with progressives back in the 30’s that the unions were essentially placed “above the law” by two separate SCOTUS rulings from the FDR court. I did not know that. I also learned that union corruption and union ties with the Democratic Party were worse than I thought. One wonders if any democrat could win an election anywhere, if all workers in the US lived in "right to work" states, instead of being forced in many states to join a union and pay dues that are primarily used to fund campaigns for democrats. One also wonders how much more efficient government at all levels would be, if government employees were free to leave the unions as well.
This is an excellent book explaining how the Democractic Party needs to mandatory dues of the National Education Association (NEA) and other labor unions in order to have some form of funding. 11 states require teachers to contribute to the NEA or the Teachers Association in order to work as a teacher. I would recommend all voters to listen to this audio tape and you will understand the corruption that goes on in the Unions and the Democratic Party.
This was nothing more than a partisan republican bashing of the Clinton White House in particular Hillary Clinton. I was geared up to hear about the corruption on both sides. Instead what I got was what seemed to be a party campaign attack. This is something I could have easily gotten off of the Fox news channel.
Good information, but the author tends to make the same points over and over. Considering the magnitude of the scandal she's exposing, maybe overkill isn't such a bad thing, though.
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