Now that I see your point perhaps you can see mine? Tell me what business practice the Pope would have supported whether it be putting women into the workforce for cheap labor, hiring immigrant labor dirt cheap, support of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, paying the worker a miserable wage, torture of animals, destruction of the family, outsourcing of jobs and factories, etc.?
My own experience in life dealing with evil business practices has made the impression on me that Big Business is a lot more dangerous than Big Labor (although both need to be reined in).
As for your first point, Pope Leo XIII would be very saddened by the state of life in the U.S. in 2014. Abortion would be considered an unmentionable evil act in the 1890's but today it is publicly celebrated.
On your second point point, keep in mind that big businesses became big by meeting the customer's needs and that unions, while they may improve the pay and protect mediocre workers from being fired, are theoretically based on theft and they promote envy. An employer should be seen as a benefactor. Before they became big, these businesses were small. Private enterprise is responsible for the lion's hare of improvements in our lives. Morally, the U.S. is nearing rotgut generally speaking, but materially it is high.
The social problems you see in big business, which I do agree with, are not created in a vacuum. The U.S. government refused to secure the borders and encourages through their policies, the changing social fabric of the U.S. and also with labor laws. Big business, and small business, has to adapt. It isn't big business that is running these Marxist-lite public schools, nor passing laws forcing people to drop their health insurance and buy "Obamacare". Government, the entity which does nothing but get larger every year, that is forcing these actions on the U.S.
Big business is profiting from the gαy marriage push. Big business is going along with the plan. But big business can go out of business. Some I would like to see completely disappear - yesterday would not be soon enough.
On the union issue, I think it is fair to say that the largest growth in unions is found in government. That should frankly be illegal because of the high opportunity for graft and the fact that a government union has labor on one side and labor on the other side - elected officials want the support of labor and know they can thumb their nose at the average voter. In a government union, there is no side representing the taxpayer and government agencies, unlike car companies or tool and die shops, can run huge deficits and never worry about going out of business.
A lot of my uncles on my mother's side of the family were coal miners and I'm sure all of them were in the union. My mother was the 13th child so her uncles were all in their late 60s to mid-70's when I was a kid so asking them would be impossible, at this time. A union for coal miners, and steelworkers, makes perfect sense because these workers are putting their lives on the line every day in the work they do so, I don't want you to think that I'm just bashing unions.
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