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Quote by: Prometheus I may be being ignorant here, but how can a union screw over the employees? The union *is* the employees! Or is it that the managment of the union is corrupt?
If the issue is corruption, then there are chriminal issues. Also, the unions elect thier leaders, so they can fire them. Either way, I don't see the need for regulation on this one.
But it seems that you have a little more knowlege on this on ehten I do, so please share. |
No amount of regulation will stop corruption. Only education for the highest morality can stop corruption, and I wish public education would return to that. Now that being said, at the 1917 National Education Association Conference, a teacher mentioned the important role education had to play in developing unions. Unions are a form of practicing democracy, and as has been suggested, if union leaders are corrupt, something is wrong with the union and the union members are not carrying the responsiblity that is theirs.
Other forms of organization practicing the principles of democracy are granges and self help organizations like Toastmasters and community organizations like the Rotary Clubs and Lions and Elks and Masons. When we better understood democracy, we didn't rely on a central government as we do today, but came together in small organizations we could effect and that would have the power to resolve our shared problems. Public education is important to this understanding of how democracy works.