Sad But True: The Very People Who Benefit from Unions Hate Unions

In the "for me but not for thee" times we live in, where "I got mine--screw you" is the mantra of not the wealthy, but the middle class toward the poor, there are people who hate unions while reaping the very benefits of them. The public employees who have generous benefits contractors and private sector workers can only dream of, are all too quick and happy to tell you how corrupt, greedy and unnecessary unions are.

What I always say to these people is, "Well, if you don't like unions, feel free to work weekends, 20-hour workdays, and for .25 cents an hour, because that's what you'd be doing if it weren't for unions." Vacation, sick leave, and a living wage or higher than living wage are all hallmarks of unions, not employer generosity.

So let's look at those lovely non-union, right-to-work states (mostly Republican strongholds--surprise!):

And now lets look at the amazing benefits of those right-to-work states:

Source: http://educationvotes.nea.org/2013/01/07/right-to-work-rumblings-surface-in-the-states/

Or in harder numbers, the telltalechart.com website has sortable graphs by state (see below). It tells the story succinctly, using the name "Lowroadistan" to show what third-world status the right-to-work states have become:

"And six states have sub-poverty shares at or near a third of their workforces–all of these in the deep south.  I call this group “Lowroadistan.”  Indeed the 10 states with the highest low-wage shares are all “right-to-work” states; and Virginia is the only “right-to-work” state to crack the top 10 in the  over 300 percent category."

Oh, but wait, you say. That's all biased information from left-wing think tanks. Nay so. Here's the data from the U.S. Census Bureau, hardly a bastion of rabid, commie pinkos:

The over-$100K people with Masters degrees in Public Administration (especially who hail from Southern states) are the most belligerent in their contempt of unions. Kick them off their pedestals, and force them to live like their constituents (a.k.a. everybody else), and they'd be singing a far different tune. As Herman Melville once said, "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”