Before the unions

          As I was taught. Before the advent of unions working conditions were deplorable. Workers were forced to work in conditions in which employees health suffered. In dangerous working conditions, men were exposed to extreme temperatures, unsanitary conditions and generally unsafe work environments. They worked their lives away and were payed slave wages even by today's standards. Many men died serving their capitalist masters. I assume workers were not considered capital. Or maybe they were. Maybe they were thought of as "Money to burn". As many men did!
          Thanks to our Creator some of these men united. They wrought CHANGE. Knowing employers would "suffer" without their labor they united and began to strike. I set off suffer in quotation marks to ridicule the suffering those employers might have undergone. This is what is ridiculous about it. It would have been a suffering that the ordinary man could not understand. Could a steel pourer know what it is like to get by without a couple hundred extra gallons of heating oil? How could they heat their multimillion dollar houses? What does a worker know of a dinner without prime rib? And a maid to serve it? How can a subservient understand the boss' need for a down mattress and pillows? The niggards would be forced to sleep on cotton, spring mattresses. They may need to eat from a cut further back from the cow. And get off their lazy asses and get it themselves! Or turn their thermostats down and use a non goose down blanket.  I could go on though not as far as your imagination could take you. So, next paragraph.
          In the beginning the union was helpful in building safe working conditions. Now you are a slave to your union. Now your union leaders will suffer as much as your employers. And you are still a pawn! Stupid!