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After Fighting For $15 Minimum Wage, L.A. Unions Realized They’d Made A Huge Mistake
When labor unions are being excoriated by writers for left-leaning news outlets like Slate, it seems clear they are experiencing an image crisis. As the subject of a recent article, Slate’s Jordan Weissmann highlighted the apparent hypocrisy of union leaders in Los Angeles who, after leading the fight for that city’s impending minimum wage hike, are now pushing for a clause that would remove that requirement for employers that allow collective bargaining.
“In other words,” Weissman wrote, “they would like an exemption from the very law they’ve been trying to pass.”
Even Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, a reliably leftist media voice, had to acknowledge the unions’ current strategy “has been met with near-universal derision from both left [and right.]”
Naturally, the criticism has been even more biting among those already wary of labor union tactics.
Union boss Rusty Hicks, however, spoke out in defense of the push for exemption.
“This provision gives the parties the option, the freedom, to negotiate that agreement,” he said. “And that is a good thing.”
Forbes contributor Tim Worstall pointed out the “arrogance” of Hicks’ assertion.
“For Randy really is saying that a union member can agree to go to work for $12 an hour, just as an example, but one not anointed with the healing touch of Randy’s advice and aid is simply not competent to do so,” he wrote.
Should unions be forced to abide by the law they helped create? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/after-fighting-for-15-minimum-wage-l-a-unions-realized-theyd-made-a-huge-mistake/
