Obama credits Unions with creating modern benefits like paid leave and minimum wage . The facts are that unions had nothing to do with the federal laws that created both. In fact Unions opposed the passage of federal laws that provided such benefits.
At a federal level FMLA passed in 1993 provides provides for only 12 weeks of unpaid family leave to workers that work at a business with 50 or more employees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_Family_Leave.
At the time of the law's passage about 30% of workers nationwide received such benefits, and today about the same number do so. FMLA did not create unpaid family leave, it only documented a right that employees were already given by employers.
Minimum wage, similarly only tried to document a policy most companies enacted long before the law. These employee benefits are the result of competition and free market forces. Not Unions, and not socialism. It should be noted that socialist nations like Cuba, N. Korea, and Venezuela do not laws that require employers provide family leave or a minimum wage. Cuba and N. Korea have 7 day work weeks and no minimum wage. Obama went on to further lies in his speech to Unions. According to the anointed one
"It was labor that helped build the largest middle class in history. So, even if you're not a union member, every American owes something to America's labor movement,"
Sorry but I, and most other Americans owe nothing to unions for our success or happiness. The history of unions, like the history of the Democratic Party is littered with dead bodies, failed programs, and illegality, and arrogance. Less than 10% of Americans are in Unions, and I would posit that most are forced to be in a Union to work for an employer. Most have no choice but pay dues, and because of the high levels of fraud and nepotism, most have no voice in their union.
Unions are clearly anti American, and our nation would be healthier and financially more secure without unions. Obama is caught in another lie, because he is once again pandering to a small minority. Obama has no values or philosophical substance; he has no backbone. He is crawling like a worm again, and the slime he leaves behind are his lies.
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