The definition of Malarkey is meaningless talk and nonsense. That is the primary communication style of the current President of the United States.
In 2020, the percentage of wage and salary workers in the U. S. who were members of unions was 10.8 percent or 14.3 million workers of a total work force of 132 million. Nearly half of the those 14.3 million union members work in government.
The union membership of public-sector workers is five times higher than the union membership of private-sector workers. So, the current number of private sector union jobs is trivial compared to the number of public-sector union jobs.
The first action in office by the new President was to cut private sector union jobs by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline and curtailing drilling on Federal land. The Brandon Administration’s Build Back Better plan contains tax breaks for renewable energy projects but only if these projects are unionized and the union dues are tax-deductible. At least these jobs won’t be in government. Or will they?
Private sector unions were the first unions. They were necessary to protect workers from abuse by the heads of corporations, the old Robber Barons of yesterday. They became the safety net for workers, providing fair pay, a safe work environment and pensions for retirement. There may still be a need for private sector unions to protect the workers from a new breed of Robber Barons in the Technology Sector and the multi-nationals. But what about public sector unions? That is another story.
Collective bargaining is a basic First Amendment right in America. But public employee unions allow politicians to pay them off with taxpayer money. The unions receive billions from taxpayers, who in return contribute millions to the politicians who gave them those billions. The taxpaying public loses. Today, the biggest example of that loss is the National Education Association. It serves the interests of the union leaders and political class, not the teachers or their students. The Democatic Party gets the money for their campaign chests.
But curtailing fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro-electric energy projects while promoting and subsidizing unreliable energy projects such as wind, solar and bio-fuels is reducing the real number of actual and potential “Good Paying Union Jobs.” And come on man, a Climate Corps? More public-sector union misfits I suppose. Hit the road, Brandon.
Don't know how much longer the Brandon/Biden Boondoggle can go on. Well said, Martin.