For those who think the Unions of today are going to protect the jobs of the regular workers do some homework. Look up and research the history of Eastern Airlines. Some of you older people out there may remember Eastern Airlines.

For those of you who are younger Eastern Airlines was an airline that existed for a long time. I think it was one of the original airlines in this country. But they hit a rough patch and in an agreement gave the Unions that represented a large number of their workers positions on the Board of Directors. Instead of insuring the company stayed profitable and in business this board gave more and more salary and benefits to the unionized workers. The result – Eastern Airlines folded because it was not profitable. All of the workers – Union and non-union lost their jobs.

So before one thinks these Unions are really out to protect workers look at their history.

BUT… to be fair… all unions are not the same and shouldn’t be painted with the same brush.

A nice future employee administrative management model is the Electricians Union that services independent contractors. Each member pay is administered with benefits provided by the union organization, and yes, the members chip in to buy their insurance, with different plan options/prices.

Since contracting is an on-again off-again type profession, the union acts as a stabilizer, carrying the benefits through periods of no-work. If you think about it, an employer has only one fiscal responsibility to their employee. To pay them.

The government has no right to impose administrative burdens for keeping track of the employees relationship with the government. They don’t get paid to do that, and it’s simply not their job.

I’d like to see the Community Centric Approach applied here and have a Community Employee Services (CES) .org’s in each town. Employers have only one responsibility, wire the employees check to the CES of the employee’s choice. They do no W2’s, don’t care about 1099 relationships. No union dues processing (which is complicated.. OOOF)

The CES is like a credit union, but instead of banking and loans, they process all the stupid taxes out of the employees pay packet. Employers are then FREE of all tax regulations… Every.. single.. one… LOL

The Employee gets a check or auto-deposit, or cash, or money order… any way they want as they are the customers of the Community Employee Services .org. The CES gives lousy services, the worker gives employer the new CES’s information. Workers choice.. CES’s serve the worker and do accounting services to satisfy government rules. Employers are off the hook for all those little contract clauses and negotiates on total pay package, period…

Ahhhhh… the joys of simplification…. Gov’t is happy, they get consistent accounting. Now they have to chase BOTH the employers and workers (there are always cheaters). Using CES’s they no longer care what employers do and are out of their hair. Result = a boom of small business as employee “hassles” is a top deterrent to new start ups. No more need to hire “tax accountants”.

Employees are happy. They have a menu of benefits services from the CES. They get to choose which CES they choose to to business with. Flexibility, stability, choice, security.

One of the most outrageous, idiotic, ridiculous setups is to allow and EMPLOYER to “hold” the pension money that belongs to the worker. Government or private, there are way too many who just seem to wind up with empty piggy banks and it’s the worker who get’s the shaft.

CES’s protect the worker by “banking” their pension fund contributions each and every pay check. No politicians promising “Oh, we’ll fund it next year.” no more raids when other coffers are dry into the workers piggy bank.

And… you launch a new industry, modeled after the cool things unions DO do for their members. What a CES would NOT do is negotiate contracts. They are strictly a service entity. Do ONE thing and it well.

Solutions are simple. The hard part is getting those with heads in…..ah… sand realize that the ONLY thing that keeps us from doing this is corruption. That and addiction. The government system is addicted to power. Getting to play with everyone else’s money. Time to change that.

An official order of protection from Hoffa and his minions is in order

All I got to say to Jimmy Hoffa jr. is bring it on. We’ll hand your raggety ass back to ya when we get done stomping a mudhole through it. That crap don’t get far here in the South. We demand courtesy and manners here.