Our state is dealing with a scenario that has the potential to destroy Alabama jobs, Alabama firms and Alabama communities. The UAW is promoting snake oil to hardworking Alabamians employed at auto manufacturing vegetation in an try to fleece cash from the pockets of excellent folks.
None of that is new to me. I used to be raised by a single mom who supported my sister and me by doing shift work at a manufacturing unit. I understand how exhausting that work is. I additionally know that when the unions are available in, they make guarantees of getting quite a bit for nothing. They weave an important story to persuade staff that they’ll get them a greater deal. They promise them a greater life with extra money, much less work and a number of different issues. However that is what they aren’t telling Alabamians after they include their union playing cards:
They don’t inform them that they are going to be compelled to pay a portion of each paycheck they obtain to help the extravagant way of life of Shawn Fain, the President of the UAW, who rakes in tons of of hundreds of {dollars} a 12 months.
They don’t inform them that a number of members of UAW management have been convicted of economic crimes towards UAW members and have gone to jail within the final 5 years.
They don’t inform them that Detroit, MI, the stronghold of the UAW, has an unemployment fee of greater than 8% as in comparison with Hope Hull, Vance and Lincoln, Alabama that are all greater than half of that.
They don’t inform them that lower than 5 years in the past, union management voted to shut the Gadsden Goodyear plant, leaving tons of of Etowah County staff with out jobs.
The folks of Etowah County know what’s it wish to see their neighbors go from thriving to struggling as lifelong Goodyear staff have been reduce unfastened by the union they paid their hard-earned cash to for years.
In Rainbow Metropolis and Attalla, they keep in mind what it was like to look at as proud, hardworking women and men have been compelled onto the unemployment line when the union voted to shut down their office after which left city and left them behind.
These union leaders drove away and left tons of of Alabama households and within the rear-view mirror of the posh SUVs they paid for on the backs of the women and men they left of their wake.
The reality is that unions are the largest multi-level advertising and marketing scams within the nation. These on the backside of the pyramid are advised grand tales of the probabilities of simple riches and higher lives if they may simply pay somewhat bit of cash out of every paycheck to the administration stage above them. Then you might be inspired to recruit extra members and construct your downline. The issue is, similar to some other multi-level advertising and marketing rip-off, only some on the high get wealthy on the backs of the folks on the backside of the pyramid who’re simply attempting to attain the American Dream.
It’s time to let Alabama’s auto staff know what the folks of Gadsden know. Unions are a get wealthy scheme – however not for Alabama’s staff. Alabama staff pays for the lavish holidays, luxurious vehicles and fancy dinners of UAW President Shawn Fain and his buddies. They may take the cash that our state’s auto staff will likely be compelled to offer them and chortle their technique to the financial institution similar to they chortle on the working women and men of Detroit, and of Gadsden, Alabama.
Then, when they’re completed laughing, they may do what they did to the unionized plant in Gadsden. They may vote to shut their Alabama places and go away their members with out jobs whereas they transfer on to the following state to promote their empty guarantees to a brand new set of targets.
Scott Stadthagen serves because the Majority Chief of the 75-member Alabama Home Republican Caucus and is the state consultant for Alabama Home District 9.
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