Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
To the Editor: This is in response to the vicious anonymous Sound Off “Brainwashed Parents,” which ran in the April 22 issue of North Country This Week . The oldest canard about unions is that …
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To the Editor:
This is in response to the vicious anonymous Sound Off “Brainwashed Parents,” which ran in the April 22 issue of North Country This Week.
The oldest canard about unions is that they exist to protect incompetence. Wrong. They protect workers' rights. That is why companies that oppose unions (and we all know who they are) hate and fear them.
The companies pay minimum wages and offer no medical or retirement plans. Guess who makes up the difference with food stamps, Medicaid, etc. We taxpayers subsidize them.
Teachers' unions don't protect incompetent teachers. They compel administrators to produce proof, to make a case, before imposing penalties. The Scott Walkers of this world don't believe employees have rights and obviously neither does the nameless critic of teachers' unions.
A union might have protected the "Radium Girls" so ably portrayed in "These Shining Lives" in Canton. They died, exploited by a company that fought tooth and nail against any compensation even after its responsibility was clearly proven.
Arthur L. Johnson
Potsdam
