I strongly disagree.
You want a playing job and can't get one? Get better then. Get so good that bands will fight each other to hire you. Any good picker can get a job anytime around here. And if the venue won't support live music, then being in a union won't help one bit. Because unions always drive up wages, even those few bands working now would be cut off.
The last thing we need is more federal laws telling us what we can and can't do. I am already up to my ears with this nanny state telling me what I should eat, what I can smoke or that I have to quit smoking to keep my Obastardcare.
Not? Then you need to fu&*^%g wake up and smell the roses. EVERY aspect of your life, from the size of your car, to the amount of energy you use in your home, what you can and can't eat, where you can work and for how much, and how much you can earn as an owner of a company are already in the health care, environmental protection, and so called banking laws. When they go into effect you will understand socialism and communism. Mark my words. It is coming.
And if you unionize the demoncrats will be stealing money from you to pad their re election campaigns. I am for the right to work without being union laws. I won't be forced to joining any extortion group. And that is exactly what unions are. And that is what this administration is. Thugs that have made it to the top on the votes of the ignorant. Thugs who have set in place a shadow government outside of constitutional law. We already only vote for a group of commie bastards selected by the powers that be. None of them can be trusted. You only get to choose from those that agree to comply with the wishes of the powers that be. They are all on the take. They have all been selected from an approved group of people before you got to vote for these empty suits. Will you believe it when we only have one person to vote for like every other commie country? Or when you have no vote at all? Some of you still won't wake up even then.
Someone is kind enough to give you a job. You agree to work for them for a set amount of wages. You are happy with your wages, then you look at your employer, judge him, and see that he makes too much. Then you covet what he has and become dissatisfied with what you have. So you use extortion and threaten to shut him down if he don't give you more money. And you think this is all right? Consider your band mates were union and you were their employer. How would you like to be threatened every couple of years to give them more money while at the same time the market won't or can't support it?
Unions are thieves. Not? Take a look at our pro union government that is screwing tax payers for their over inflated wages and pensions. Taxpayers who can't even make it as it is. Unions are known for their thuggery.
And how would you like it when crappy musicians get union cards and you can't fire them and have to keep them even if they make your band suck? How about it when they tell you how many members you can have in your band, or what instruments you can or can not have for your particular genre of music? Unions have always done that in every other unionized occupation. How about when they tell you that your lead guitar player or other band members can not sing because that robs a union singer who doesn't play an instrument of a job? You think you would be above that? .... snicker snicker That is how it works in the movie industry. That is how it works in any other unionized industry.
OK You are going to screen and apply a skill test to become a union musician? Everyone cheats. Look at union workers today in any field. Crappy work, less work for the pay and so on. And what if YOU don't meet someones standards? Unions are clannish and corrupt. You haven't observed that for yourselves yet?
Sorry for the rant. That just pushed my piss me off button.
