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I see unions as paramount to workers in US history. Without them you may be paid $.25/hr, your children may be working instead of going to school, you may be breathing in awful chemicals at your workplace, and so forth. Unions have been instrumental in creating the working conditions we see today in the US. Dues seem a small price to pay. Although a union may not always help an individual, they work well in setting precedent. This isnt to say we live in employment paradise, but it could be so much worse. As Ive said before, remember that many of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers lost their lives in forming unions. Reagan did much more when he broke unions than saving people dues. He began an erosion of safety, integrity, and so forth.
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