Hunting for Unicorns with Milly Silva

By Scott St. Clair | The Save Jersey Blog

Union boss Milly Silva’s self-serving, anti-business and anti-economic growth Asbury Park Press op-ed was par for the Labor Day course, Save Jerseyans. Expecting a serious discussion of employee-relations issues from a labor leader is like hunting for unicorns. 

Ms. Silva is out to lunch in her claims. A $15 per hour minimum wage will kill jobs, which is happening in Seattle where it’s being phased in. If you want to see rapid automation of fast food restaurants, go for it. People now making $8.38, New Jersey’s current minimum wage, will lose jobs.

Ditto burdening businesses with a paid sick leave mandate. Somebody has to pay for these goodies, and I don’t see Ms. Silva volunteering to chip in.

unicorn FarneseHer union, the SEIU, has a reputation for astroturfing pro-$15 per hour “spontaneous protests” to skirt federal laws against organizational picketing and secondary boycotts, so their authenticity is questionable. How many of the “picketers” were recruited from the ranks of the homeless, an old union trick?

Unions today are more like the Ironworkers’ Union boss in Philadelphia getting sentenced to 19 years in prison for violent crimes against non-union contractors.

American unions are in a death spiral. Twenty-five states are right-to-work, and the number grows annually. The Supreme Court is close to declaring mandatory public-sector union membership and dues an unconstitutional infringement on workers’ free-speech and free-association rights, which will make every government job in the country, including New Jersey, right-to-work.

Unions have little to offer and lots of negatives, Ms. Silva, so peddle your wares elsewhere.

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Scott St Clair
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SCOTT ST. CLAIR: Earning a J.D. from the University of Puget Sound in 1975, Scott is a communications professional who has worked as a freelance journalist/writer as well as a political operative.

2 Comments

  1. If the SCOTUS really goes as far as federal right-to-work, I’ll forgive them ObamaCare. Well, almost. But we both know it won’t happen. It’s great that FBI and NSA are nonpartisan organizations that stay outside of politics, or one would imagine they have goods on Roberts.

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