Labor Unions Kill Jobs
PJ Media,
by
John Stossel
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/10/2025 8:53:55 AM
Progressives love unions.
Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class.
I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for better workers, gave us the weekend.
But whatever you think about capitalism, few people question the claim that unions help workers.
But I will. It's the focus of my new video.
A couple years ago, the Teamsters demanded more pay from UPS. Seemed like UPS could easily afford it. The company made almost $13 billion in 2021.
UPS used some of that money to hire more union workers. Then they offered them raises.
But Teamster boss Sean O'Brien wanted more. He threatened a strike.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/10/2025 9:35:46 AM (No. 1975395)
Excellent article, and dropping all pretense about unions and their thuggery. Exactly why the auto companies are bankrupt (look at their balance sheets), and why Trump is bailing them out with tariff protection. Unions enrich themselves at the expense of everybody else. Unions do not produce anything. Unions use intimidation to gain members, who would be better off keeping their money, rather than paying union dues, as union protection is non-existent when inevitable force reductions happen to reduce labor costs.
16 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 7/10/2025 9:44:19 AM (No. 1975403)
I’m not sure younger generations are even familiar with the story of The Little Red Hen, but any successful business owner can tell you about the parasites you attract by building a profitable business. Labor unions are no exception.
18 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/10/2025 9:48:15 AM (No. 1975406)
The union representing newspaper workers killed The New York Herald Tribune back in the sixties. It was the conservative voice in NY back then. The union leader couldn’t have cared less.
10 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
downnout 7/10/2025 9:52:30 AM (No. 1975410)
Speaking of The Little Red Hen, labor unions would eat the chicken and then complain that there were no more eggs.
22 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 7/10/2025 9:56:53 AM (No. 1975416)
I dont know what percentage of my pre-retirement income was as a result of unions, but I do know they spend a great deal of time defending the jobs of the lazy and inept. The workloads of a few who are willing to do the job were much higher because of the idiots who were unable or unwilling to. Management gave up trying to do anything about it because they got tied up in grievances forever whenever they did.
18 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/10/2025 10:37:57 AM (No. 1975433)
I used to live in Ann Arbor, and worked in Detroit - right in the middle of United Auto Workers territory. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t owned an American-made automobile in 25 years.
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 7/10/2025 10:56:35 AM (No. 1975440)
I was never so glad back in the day when I got promoted out of my union...I went through two strikes and never got anything to help the no pay period.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/10/2025 11:09:13 AM (No. 1975448)
Unions do one thing, besides bankrupting companies, they protect the malcontents. They protect the losers, the workers who hate the company but are to lazy or unqualified to find another job. Unions are a cancer to any company or organization that is stupid enough to deal with them. Another thing is when on strike the workers get no pay and go home to rice and beans while the union leaders get paid and go home to lobster and filet. Wake up.
18 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/10/2025 12:27:06 PM (No. 1975471)
In 1962 my first DH worked for a trucking company, was in the office which was non-union. He said people who worked on the dock were union and lazy as the day was long. If he needed to see if something was on the dock, went out there and moved a piece of freight. someone, not sure who, would get the rest of the day off. Also he said if something came through the dock and they wanted it, they would scratch it or otherwise mar it so it could be called 'broken' or something and they got it for nothing or a little of nothing.
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2025 1:29:39 PM (No. 1975493)
This has always been the case. ALWAYS.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2025 2:01:20 PM (No. 1975520)
Several frinds worked for Yellow Freight, headquartered here in KC. They are gone now, killed by the union.
Typical destruction by the horrors of labor unions.
And the cost of shipping by UPS is literally insane now. Drivers make $170,000 per year....to drive a delivery truck? Incredible.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56 7/10/2025 3:11:45 PM (No. 1975558)
Union leaders and greedy business owners did agree on one thing. Getting rid of manufacturing jobs in the USA.
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/10/2025 3:51:32 PM (No. 1975580)
This has been true for over sixty years yet we still allow these parasitic unions to exist. Just imagine the amount of money that goes to union leadership, democrat politicians and the Mafia that could have gone into workers' pockets.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/10/2025 4:45:29 PM (No. 1975596)
Unions didn't give us the weekend or the middle class.
Henry Ford did that to attract better workers from his competitors.
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/10/2025 6:22:44 PM (No. 1975634)
Don't forget the Teacher's Unions! While they are not destroying manufacturing, they are destroying young minds so that they are more likely to accept the union mentality when going to work. Unions encourage minimal work and mediocracy. No extra effort ever!. Only do a narrow parameters of responsibilities. Nothing more or you are violating the union rules! Same goes for government employee unions. Lots of people doing the minimal work for the maximum pay and benefits. Every holiday (real and imagined) off.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/11/2025 12:12:27 AM (No. 1975728)
Yes, unions are absolutely bad. Yes indeed.
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