Right to Work States

[LoveLife&Laughter]

[LoveLife&Laughter]

"Action Figure"  Still laughing.... :0)

[ellevan]

Yeah, I laughed too...a bionic senior citizen!

[The Dyslexic Dodger]

OUCHHHHH! Dam gurl hats off on the high pian threshold. It suonds like slice n dice mite be a good optoin at some piont. OUCHHHHHHHH!

DAM!  

[P.A.]

I don't think you will be an action figure but will probably feel much better. I had bilateral knee replacements 3 years ago. There are some thing's I still can't do but I can walk without pain and that is an amazing thing after years of hobbling around.

[ellevan]

I am researching the hell out of this...I actually have pretty amazing mobility now but the pain IS overwhelming and is not getting better.  I think I am most concerned about the recovery and the fact that one, only one of many, of my character defects is that I do not accept help well and I rarely would ask for it and the recovery period would require a revision in my thinking, that's daunting.  I need to get the other shoulder evaluated and see if bilateral replacements are in my future.  After that, I will finish the research and weigh my options.  Traditional shoulder replacement has had very negative outcomes, this reverse replacement is pretty new in terms of long term outcome studies.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

I have total knee replacements in both legs too, I feel your pain.

[P.A.]

The three of us should team up as a group of superheroes after Ellievan is fixed.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

[exedir]

24 out of 50, not including DC or the territories.  

This isn't your father's labor market, or even your labor market.  The idea of organize labor is as much a political, ideological thing as it is a monopoly of access to labor and the use and cost of labor.  And there is the rub, politics.

Much of what was true when organize labor was mostly in industry, large, private industry of the past, is the past.  Gone and never coming back, sorta.  What is true of organize labor is that size matters and the need to organize the biggest employers which means government, government at all levels.  And to do that , organize government, it takes votes, votes bought and paid for by union dues, and get out the vote of workers and workers' families and relatives to be blunt.   

From over 20% in the fifties, to now something close to 11% of organized workers the trend has to be recognized, recognized as moving from industry to government as those lager businesses have moved work offshore and to regions that are not sympathetic to organized labor.  And yes, it economics, cruel and unfair, just as Adam Smith proposed in the Wealth of Nations; money is money and not morality.

What we have here is an echo of what was, and even if there is blood on the streets of Michigan, it will not change any thing about the trend and trends of labor, particularly organized labor, in this country and around the world. 

[LoveLife&Laughter]

LOL ... you guys are going to be milking that punch for years :0)

[P.A.]

I believe your theory is ass backwards. It was mistreatment by companies with government help that started the union movement. What is happening now will bring us back to that. Workers will rise up again.