The U.S. Chamber of commerce recently warned its members that organized labor is determined to try and return Corporate America to the bad old days of the 1950s when unions confidently dictated their demands to management, and if those demands were not met, unions could bring entire industries to a standstill.
In a recent article in the Dallas Morning News, for example, pilots, flight attendants, and other employees at American Airlines have stated they want to get back everything they had negotiated away in previous labor agreements.
This trend amongst militant labor unions will only serve to make America less competitive with foreign companies as well as helping to bring the economy to the brink of a recession, which all responsible leaders are working to avoid.
Unions not only want a return to obsolescence, but they also want to organize the entire labor force and control as many boardrooms as possible. Their treasuries are brimming with money specifically earmarked for upcoming political campaigns so that they can also control our political institutions.
As a result of labor’s revived militancy, Corporate America must fight back. If it does not organize as well as the unions have, it will find itself in a precarious and defensive position in the years to come. Unions must be challenged in the courts, before the SEC and the NLRB, and in Congress. Finally, Corporate America must educate its employees about the benefits of a free-market economy and lower taxes, two objectives that unions are against.
