Unions Invade Private Property
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- Опубліковано 31 січ 2025
- “If I didn’t allow them in, I’m the one going to jail!” rants a farmer after a California law allowed dozens of union activists to storm onto his farm.
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“You don’t know if they’re mad, if they’re going to get violent,” says one employee who was working when the union arrived with flags and bullhorns, “It was a scary situation.”
The union wanted the workers to strike. Few were interested.
“It is asinine!” says Mike Fahner, the farm’s owner. He points out that unions don’t have the right to access private property without permission in any other industry. “If they came back every day I would have been paralyzed.”
Mike and another business are challenging the law in the Supreme Court. But they lost in two lower courts.
California officials argue that unions must be allowed to go onto farms because "workers remain isolated from the flow of information characteristic of modern society.”
Mike says that’s not true. “Every person has a cell phone in their pocket. [Workers] know how to communicate through Facebook and … Twitter much better than most.
“This is trespassing,” he adds, “You should be going to jail for doing this.”
Nice logo. They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Yep, jumps right out at you..
I was thinking the same thing.
check all papers. finish after dark
Is that United farm workers logo for real?
They're openly facistic communist filth all over the country now while gaslighting us saying it isn't so.
They could just have two people handing out flyers at the entrance. But no, unless there's a mob of people cajoling them while they work, they don't have access!
Funny how unions always embrace the color red. The flag shown at the end was disturbing for its similarity to the swaztika.
@@junior.von.claire looked tome like nazi flag
@@junior.von.claire Well, red is the color of socialism and unions are a socialistic endeavor. But, the fact that they use a bird that looks very similar to the eagle the Nazis used and the black and white coloring is extremely representative what kind of organization they are running.
2 people handing out flyers does not provide the same intimidation factor!
@@junior.von.claire ссср more like
When steel workers go on strike, the steel is still there the next day. When electricians go on strike, the project is ready to be picked up within a week. When farm laborers go on strike, the crops rot and the harvest is ruined.
But think of the children, don't you want them to starve?
Sadly that might not be far off judging by how hard they insist on abortions as much as they do (I see good reasons for abortions but you should get spade and neutered if your just being irresponsible and wanting abortions).
And the laborers would lose their jobs.
Farm laborers make more than you’d think. Though it depends on the crop and harvesting technique
@Darrius King Farm workers dont really have significant reason compared to other industries to strike. I have worked several different harvest jobs. You make BANK. But you only get to work for a couple of weeks if youre lucky.
These unions come in and strong arm people to strike or demand more when they are already getting a lot. Its what unions do. They shit on everything. Unions arent interested in helping out workers they are interested in perpetual problems they can create, i mean solve.. both actually, so they can milk employees for dues.
I have seen more than a half dozen fully profitable companies go under or outright move because of unions. They negotiated their people right out of a job.
This is why executives need to listen to the demands of their workers. The workers are the only thing keeping the whole world afloat.
Saw a farmer do something...used a liquid manure dispenser to "hydrate" the trespassers, it was awesome. just drove around his own property where they where and gave them a bath.
Yes because in some trash hole euro countries you’re also allowed to trespass and invade and setup camp on people’s property.
Would not recommended responding to rioters by dousing them with toxic substances. You are opening yourself up to law suits. Let the legal side play out.
@@deepzone31 Just install sprinklers for the grass, freezing cold water at 5am, in the dark. They won't stick around long.
Bet That was a shitty situation 😂😂😂😂
They should've all been given permanent property in the field 6 feet under as manure after the pigs ate them
California is such a weird country.
Not really. It's in line with most communist nations.
Funny how the majority of the protests were the activists themselves.
They technically could block any farm they want for weeks and bankrupt them.
It's completely idiotic to give a random mob so much power.
And the seventh most powerful economy ON THE PLANET that has contributed more to the technological advancement of any state in the union. Not to mention 90% of all entertainment you consume. And your state? We most likely pay your state's entire welfare bill. Yes, that is weird.
True indeed
@@NineM_YorHa Especially when those people have 0 Idea what is actually happening inside the farm. There wasn't a bunch of non-english speaking immigrants being paid half minimum wage. There were some americans getting their fair days pay for their fair days work and not complaining about it. Causing so much economic damage to a business like that can just lead to those people having one less job to come to during harvest.
When the Government says we are protecting you, what they really are saying is we want to put a small to medium size business out of business for our rich friends that paid for our campaign.
You don't understand, these poor farm workers are too stu- I mean uneducated about their conditions and as the smarter white folk we have to help choose for them
I've been saying it for a year. Crushing small business and giving market share to corporate titans is a centerpiece of the plandemic.
@Wade Filion man they sure love sticking up for protesters in Californication don’t they? What the “government” doesn’t realize is that these mobs can turn violent at the drop of hat ! 🤦🏻♂️🙄
That means it's not the government doing it... it's the rich people... I never can figure out why people get that twisted.
@@ouya_expert I saw a lot of union workers in that protest but did not see "white people", I saw people that looked like the other farm workers. Maybe it's workers trying to help other workers, whether it's good or bad that's debatable but this idea that, in this case, it's white people choosing for them has no proof or foundation.
As things get more ridiculous, it amazes me that John doesn't burst out laughing every time he tries to be take on the Devil's Advocate stance
Maybe he does and this is the one out of a dozen takes where he was able to keep a straight face.
Probably because of his ridiculous, pro union mustache. He knows
He’s spent his career surrounded by people like that within news agencies.
He knows how bad things are, and that his Devil's advocate position is really important to pose to people to highlight problems, not some joke.
The state gets to decide whatever they want to define as "brief and unobtrusive" trespassing onto private property?
If so, it is no longer private property.
Personal property doesn't exist in The People's Republic of California.
Welcome to Communism!
they are socialists are you surprised........
@@rhondaroberts2223 socialism stop wioth the word games they dont want it called socialism because thery can use the term to enforce their beliefs under a supposedly noble moniqer.
Your first mistake is trying to run a business in California. It's only a good place for the politicians that run it, and the people that are looking for hand outs.
Don't get your hopes up. Arizona's is blue, Texas will be soon enough. Succession now please, before we're all f'ed.
To be fair, it seems like his farm was there long before it became a blue toilet bowl.
@@m14wdotcom it's one of the most if not the most expensive state
California used to be good. Could happen anywhere else.
@@jccusell Texas will not be blue.
Private property doesn't matter in California
You'll own nothing and you will be happy.
It's OUR property
Private property doesn't exist in any Marxist utopia.
Unless the property belongs to Nancy Pelosi
Sure it does, you envious sad sack.
This is going to sound cheesy but whatever: "There are two primary sources of bad things in this world: legitimately bad people using their power to do bad things, and idealistic, self-righteous fools who think they are trying to stop those kind of people when all they are really doing is causing more harm."
It does sound cheesy, people are more complex than that. Anything can be a source of 'bad things', people aren't pre-programmed machines who only behave in one of two patterns.
@@indigocloud8408 I never claimed that was the only two patterns they act in, hence "two primary sources". If I listed every source of bad things in people, then the phrase/post wouldn't be terribly pithy, would it? :P
Interesting point. So basically all the bad things in the world come from ignorance of what is good, and foolishness in the ways to try and attain the good. The people who are trying to force things to get better, the "social justice warriors", are too heavy handed in their efforts to riot, "cancel" people, and now invading private property. The real way to change things requires patience and wisdom. Something that seems to be lacking a lot nowadays. MLK Jr. knew the secret of staying cool and being clever about it. He wasn't doing stuff like this.
"Real change comes not from fighting the old, but from focusing on building the new" - Socrates
Least cheesiest thing ive heard so far.
Pretty much. Malicious/selfish people and incompetent idealists are the two main causes of all man-caused issues.
"It's not your farm, it's OUR farm"
- Commiefornia
Just do what black friday shoppers do but with punching instead of stealing. If every worker punches a cuck they can't arrest you all.
@@KandiKlover ?
Unions: "look at these poor, ignorant workers. They need us to inform them that they are being exploited for profit and we need their union dues."
I notice you are ignoring the rich people again.
@@blogintonblakley2708 No, I'm not ignoring the union bosses and politicians getting rich off the backs of the poor. Oh, you only mean the employers creating jobs and producing goods and services.
@@carissstewart3211 Rich people do not GIVE you a job that they use to impoverish you.
Unions leaders are not rich... LOL
Rich people are rich... everyone else is an employee... whether they are union leaders or politicians.
You are intentionally flying cover for the actual people causing the problem.
Do you have a paycheck you are protecting here?
@@blogintonblakley2708 O wouldn’t get too upset-the processing machinery will solve the problem....
More to the point, we need those union dues so we can contribute to Democrats, so they'll continue to pass laws in our favor.
4:10 HAHAHAHA That looks straight out of Germany era 1940's HAHAHAHAHA.
Edit: Wow, It really is spot on 100%. The colors, the circle and even the symbol. HAHAHAHA
Minecraft Nazi flag
Thought the same. Also, no longer surprised. All these leftists emulate fascist and communist ideology, tactics and propaganda.
In 1938 Natzi brown shirts and SS harassed people out of their jobs then their property then they took people to camps then ovens.
I'm not the only one seeing it then right? It's a little horrifying.
@@johnsonfamily4712 so do "rightist" what your are really talking about is an extreme ideology. Unions are a good thing for the most part. However, this strategy is a bad one.
I've been a union member for nearly 2 decades, but I don't feel that unions or anyone has the right to trespass on private property.
There's countless ways to legally distribute information that's peaceful, effective, and non disruptive.
Apparantly the judges that withheld this decision were too stupid to figure that out.
@@marklennox2151 wrong that judge was too busy counting his union donation.
if it's non-disruptive, it's not effective. to be disruptive is the point. that is the effect on businesses, if it would not be effective, there would be no point.
that is very strange that after two decades you still don't understand union protest´s core tenet as a union member, that´s the most basic thing to understand, the point of protests.
have you actually sat even one hour at union info? read a single union pamphlet in your life? without the ability to block business workers have no power.
I was forced into a union many years ago simply because I was a teenager at the time and I was frightened by them, it too years for me to learn and understand then one day my Bosses Boss offered me a fantastic contract no more shift work and an office and pay rise the union tried to bully me into not signing the contract by this time I was 26 years of age I knew my rights and new how to negotiate my own terms I finally felt strong enough and brave enough to tell them to sod off and leave me the heck alone. I signed the contract and never regretted dropping the union all they ever did was take my dues and did nothing for me at all. That was back in the late 80’s when unions would pull workers out on strike just before Christmas every year like clock work. It caused nothing but misery for families over the Christmas holidays then one day the workers told the unions to go to hell and we finally had no more strikes 4-6 weeks before Christmas. I hate unions they are nothing but bullies today and they look down their noses at the common worker anyway.
yep, bullies and thugs. pretty much organized crime. sorry you had to deal with that.
@@chodebon75 ☺️thank you, yep and it’s a shame that they are still like that after all these years. 😼
And socialism is the workers union on steroids
They love to take your dues. The union is the second highest paid in our country. The highest paid person is Uncle Sam and we don't seem to get much from him anymore.
They’re about 50 years past their prime.
I grew up on a farm. Work was dictated by daylight, weather and seasons. It didn't give a damn about if we knew about our 'rights' When I went to work in factories and plants the union rigidity made the jobs take longer and cost more.
Everybody forget that theirs be sum migrant workers which or indentured servants.
I worked in a lucrative chemical business as they all are but despite age experience and knowledge all the department were on different rates for the same job. when we got the union in and told them that I was told I just wanted my cake and eat it! membership is great but all you are doing is paying to listen to more corporate bullshit from lying bulllshitters and hence will never be in a union again! they are just another management level who want to look like they have a place in it whilst doing in real terms fuck all but keep taking your money
I love how hostile union workers get about “taking a break”. Grown men doing their best impression of Goldilocks.
You didn't give a damn about your rights as a worker? Lol
This is a very telling post, you didn't care about your worker rights? Bet you care about your gun ownership rights a lot ya hack
I have worked on a lot of equipment for Mike as an independent mechanic for years, he's a good guy and has had people who have been working for him for decades, he always treats his people good.
What a shame this is. As a fellow union worker there's absolutely no reason to take this approach. Lots and lots of ways to spread the word. Putting them all out of a job isn't what a true union is about. Stand at the gate, pass your flyers out, whatever. But this is too far. Thanks for sharing Warren
As a union guy... if the employer is taking care of its employees theres no reason for a union... unfortunately there are those who dont want to actually work for their money and help the employer grow their business... which a good union member would understand. A good union member takes pride in their work and wants to deliver the best product and in return recieve better benefits. We dont want our employers to go out of business or see us as an enemy but rather a healthy relationship. These lazy scumbags always come along and do half the work you do but are twice as loud when demanding compensation. Their attitude is "fuck the employer" and they go out of their way to do a shit job and then claim they are great at their job and underappreciated. They always want what you have. If you get overtime and they dont, youre a scumbag. if you get promoted and they dont, youre an asskisser and they will try and fuck you over. These are the kind of people you dont tell about how easy your job on site is because they will try and either a)get it or b)tell someone about your gravy gig to ruin it for you... even suggest that you come and also help them with THEIR job. These are the guys you dont go for beers with after work. You do everything you can to keep them away and isolated and FIRST to be laid off. If you can manage it, put them in charge of counting the rocks on the ground tucked away somewhere out of the way until you can get rid of them and if you ever get a chance off the job to punch them in the mouth ypu owe it to all your brothers and sisters to take it.
@@mikec8679 amen brother. You've been there. Lol
Hey man I know this is not the better place for this but could you please tell me how to put in contac with him maybe there is a chance for me
@@davedunn2124 screw unions!
Trespassers should be prosecuted, period.
*shot
Because of laws in California, they're not trespassing.
@@djm5687 they're still trespassing, whether CA condones it or not.
Where would that have left yall? California is MEXICAN land my friend, you come from a different continent buddy. Your forefathers were never given the Rights to remain?
@@dwindows1976 California was acquired via war, just like *every nation that has ever existed.* No land is "stolen", nor does it "belong" to certain groups solely based on race.
PS: the video and comment was in relation to labor unions trespassing on a farm, not to the existence of California, USA.
"Deprive farmers of information." Do they think these farmers are Amish or something?
Brought to us by the same mindset that says minorities can’t find the DMV.
My neighbors are Amish & menonites. Thryre far from uneducated. Talk you out of your house. A 10 yr old boy was driving a team of 4 heavy horse(alone) that could step on him like a bug w expertise. He knows all there is about farming. Profit & loss. if his father died tomorrow could step in fill his shoes. They go to school every day. Church on Sunday( bldg in 1/3 ml down my rd) no masks, no Soc distancing, NO COVID, No TV. They think "The English" as we're called, are nuttier than fruitcakes.
@@roberttyrrell2250 In many ways, they're right.
@@ethankane7854 In what possible way are farmers less informed than other workers?
Fear and intimidation the union way of life.
My grandfather (textile) and my mother (pharmaceutical) 2 generations of workforce , both factories in India were closed down in 80s and early 2000s respectively by union and leaders received a fat paycheck.
@@4evrbatman Indian Constitution is socialistic. So don't be surprised it got shut down.
@@abcdpqrs1281 I dont think that is directly related to the Constitution also the word socialist amd secular was later added in 1976 to the preamble possibly by Congress party (lefties) originally it was Democratic Republic in 1949 . It is always too much of something. The textile was mainly based on one of main the leader who was a medical doctor but had a communist ideology. The workers as usual demanded for higher wages. Many of them disagreed and others later repented. Eventually the mills were raised for Commerical and residential real estate. The latter instance of pharma MNCs like Glaxo and JnJ which were before Both captilaist but in conjuncture with unions closed down to move to cheaper labor and real estate. These strikes or VRS (voluntary retirement schemes) were instigated by Congress party (lefty) union leaders. I see similar pattern in USA with the big tech supporting states like CA and NY. So you can say even a free market economies are not spared. This is more of cronyism were the companies which started in small garages with entreprenual mindset eventually join the state for their benefits and workers (consumers incase of big tech as consumer is their worker as in data collector) sufffer.
@@4evrbatman please. Indian Constitution was socialistic even before 1976. Not after. Even Ambedkar was taught by Columbia university which taught Marxist and Keynesian school of economic thought.
@ToxicBox Gaming The Nazi way of life. Just take a better look at their flag at 4:10.
"The Government is the problem", Ronald Reagan!
The goverment is the solution.
And things won’t change until politicians start dying, they only respond to violence.
Imagine if those Union members start burning down the fields just to send a message. With the recent Riots, it's not impossible.
Sooooooooo all of these ""UNION ACTIVISTS"" drive to your farm & none of their tires get slashed? None of their cars burn to the ground? All these ""IN THE DARK - PRE DAWN ATTACKS"" on YOUR PROPERTY & somehow, someway they ALL DROVE AWAY, A - OK ??? It was/is the COURTS & LAWYERS that made this become REALITY & Sooooooooooo you think that is the best solution to make it stop? Wake up AMERICA, fight FIRE with FIRE or just roll over & die already, because this & all the other BULLSHIT that clogs up your day, will not ever be reversed & just go away until ""WE THE PEOPLE"" stand up and go over to the window, lift it up and stick our heads out and shout, ""I'M AS MAD AS HELL & I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE"".............................PERIOD !!!
Imagine someone not making up something that never happened as an argument against anything.
"burning from village to village" is in the play book.
Private property isn’t going to last long people
Like the Gustapo lol
My experience is that unions leave your wages stagnant. If you dont mindlessly obey them the stewards will ignore your reports of mistreatment and they will alienate you from everyone until you leave. I was a ufcw member in two different jobs. One stretch was for over 3 years where i trained my replacements and was passed around from shift to shift despite winning a posting on a job. My wage fluctuated weekly and when other employees harassed me i was laughed at by lead hands and stewards. When i switched to a private company with no union i was paid much better to start but it is a slightly dangerous job and would pay more anyway, however, my raises came like clockwork and were substantial. I am now a salesperson and floor supervisor. No union necessary.
my friend was laidoff in his lineman union because he worked harder than everybody else, made them look bad.
@@chodebon75 Sounds like a union of crabs.
Strange. My experience is that my Union, SEIU, got us 5% raises every year on top of massive increases to our benefits package. Maybe UFCW is a crap union but that's not my experience. By the way, I'm writing this on my 'Day-Off' where I'm still getting paid due to PTO. Haha, suckers.
@@TheWorldsStage i get paid days off too. 3 weeks worth every year and 4 weeks worth after 10 years. We have health coverage benefits as well as a pension plan.
California is such a messed up place, I am so glad I didn't move there 10 years ago like I have planned to. Thanks for the videos, John!
I wish I could leave. Too many things tying me down here to be able to leave. :(
Good for you ! It’s all f’d up here ... taxes for every little thing...and a lot of fake people
I agree. 35 years ago, as a mid-teen, I wanted to move to Cali from the east coast so bad I even subscribed to California Magazine for a few years. Life had other plans for me, and I thank God for that! It's a beautiful state, but infested with wrong-thinking Americans. They actively work to undermine their own success, over and over again.
Kevin Frost, it is not just California. Look at all the formerly red states who are turning into marxist Democrat run ****holes because a few densely populated deep blue pockets end up controlling the whole state. This is what they want for all of America.
The most insane part of this is that judges have upheld this.
Judges are the priesthood of the cult of government
Judges should only verify actions match laws and laws are coherent. If the legislatures pass a bad law it needs removed by the legislatures; judges cannot toss out laws.
it's the 9th circuit, what do you expect?
Bought & paid for!
There is a video titled, "The grinding down of America", watch it.
Union flag looking a little Third Reich-y there...
Yeah. If you re-arrange the bird a lil bit it gets close to some pinwheel of friendship stuff from the 40's. Think theyll come up with Union Youth next?
That's what it is
You mean a little CCCP.
Goebbels would be proud
That's what I saw
I see them as trespassers, who should go to jail as such.
Trespassers should be shot
I am not a farmer. Never have, never will. But gosh this is such an intrusion on their rights. If we as a people don’t stand against this, then no one will stand when they come to take our rights.
As a German, I really like that flag at 4:11 ... I bet there are many "anti facists" in that activist group :,D
If, by anti-fascist, you mean communist, then I agree.
Oof, just wait until they start wearing the David Hogg armbands and start yelling about "the superior race."
Hold up. Is this real? Was that flag made by someone who believes in the cause or by a saboteur?
Its just your friendly neighborhood Schutzstaffel (Safety Squadron)...
HoundofJustice By Anti Fascists, you should mean the Fascist Antifa.
All this makes me think of is South Park when Timmy started his ride share business. The taxi drivers break into Timmy's house to break his legs. The first thing they say coming through the window is " we're from the union". LoL. Seems oddly similar
Haha. Well that is how the unions started so I guess not much has changed
Well thats their purpose. It's like saying you punched someone and a lawyer appears
@@lubu2960 the purpose of unions is to show up and break your legs??
@@lubu2960
U wot m8
@@Drako9823 Z 42 hut hut...
The 9th Circuit Court is the most overturned Court in the United States.
It's sad and scary these judges have more power than the president in some cases... Everyday Americans are way too trusting. .
It's sad and scary these judges have more power than the president in some cases... Everyday Americans are way too trusting. .
Lower courts do what they want and let the supreme court deal with things in the end anyway.
John Stossel has always stood out as a voice of reason and good judgement amidst all the nonsense of the world. Thanks for all of the hard work you've done over the years. We love you John!
This is intimidation and coercion. Nothing less!!!
agree, how is it different then when your state or local rep does this?
@@vicgarrison8968 Well ... unless they have a warrant you can make them leave. Even if it's a cop who doesn't have a warrant or reasonable cause to be there. They're ignoring the fact that the workers themselves are uncomfortable with them being there. I prefer right to work states. A person doesn't HAVE to join a union to work. Unions have become political entities. And the workers really don't have a say in the politics. I'm a senior. I got AARP then dropped my membership because I didn't like their politics.
My late father worked most of his life working a union job. He was fond of saying.... "Beware of unions. If they ever force you into a strike situation and you're out in the heat, cold, rain, etc...if you are laid off and worrying how you're going to make it...if the company, for survival, shuts down. The union leaders will be warm, dry and economically stable living off your dues."
Maybe I'm dumb but if the union calls a strike, what's to stop you from just going to work anyway? Unless the union is technically your boss and they have the power to fire you, I dont see the issue. I'd keep going to work and in the end be the only one keeping my job. Play both sides
@@thekyleprojekt7996 Depends on the union and the people protesting at the worksite. The cost of breaking a strike has varied from no cost at all, to having strikers yell "scab!" at you on your way in and out of work every day, to having strikers kick the shit out of you until you stop showing up, to being murdered.
@@thekyleprojekt7996 you should do some research BEFORE You speak.. the "UNION" NEVER calls for a strike... The WORKERS vote for a strike... and the workers have a VOICE to say NO.. we do NOT want to go on strike!!!!
@@LVVideoGuy workers DO NOT call for strikes, UNION MEMBERS do. Therefore, UNIONS call for strikes if the membership wins the vote to do so. Not all workers are union and those who are not have no vote on any union activity.
@@thekyleprojekt7996 My dad was in a private union. His insurance was through the union, so if you went to work then you were kicked out and lost your insurance. Of course, depending on the union, you are looking at the possibility of having your car or house vandalized, to physical violence.
I'm fine with 49 states. Let California be their own country. That's a loss I'm more than willing to take cause frankly, I'm sick of California.
Bye Bye
Yes, please. I'm from California and we would do much better without those red, hillbilly states holding us back. California and New York are the highest contributing states to the federal government, where all our money goes to the shithole country states where Bubba and his sister/wife are stealing all the welfare.
Getting rid of California would absolutely NOT be a loss! Just a net gain for the country.
so long as the resident's status as us citizens are revoked
4:09: Ah yes, the UFW flag with a red background, white circle with a black symbol in the center... wonder where I’ve seen that design on a flag before...
Think hard now. You've seen it somewhere.
It has the same colors, which you think no one would use, ever again.
Got it yet?
It's Nazis.
Sorry no win but a nice consolation prize.
“Without going into your property we can’t reach them to tell them about your supposed abuse” What? They work for like 2 months out of the year. You have 10 months to catch them and educate them. What do you mean?
And they'd prefer that over tilling their own lands and paying workers adequately. It's because its all bull to seize what someone else created.
When I was a kid, I worked a summer at a unionized grocery store. There was no choice. Join the union or no job.
I paid dues and got minimum wage, so I actually made less than minimum wage, while my mentally challenged co-workers made more than me because of seniority.
It was a good lesson to learn at a young age. Most unions exist to serve themselves.
Totally agree with your comment.
@@XTRATIPSY You can teach without paying a minimum fee. The law changed a few years ago (June 27, 2018) after the Janus v. AFSCME decision buy the U.S. Supreme Court.
You are welcome for that bit of education.
@Ian You were a kid and the long term employees needed their union. It was not set up for a id working a summer job. That was yours and managements decision to have you work under those conditions. Why you chose to accept such a job is beyond logic. You had no long term interest in the job. Those that put in their time and dues reap the benefit. Those members WERE the union.
I did the same thing. Worked as a cashier for minimum wage and the union I was forced to join took some of my pay to ... help me somehow?!
@@XTRATIPSY Unions have their place. Companies are terrified of having their workers unionized. To me, that is a good thing. If they can afford billions of dollars of bonuses to their CEO, they can afford to pay their workers.
@@christianmeglio9111 its funny that your recognize Ian should have just worked somewhere else but miss it when it comes to everyone else that is supposedly getting shafted by ceo bonuses. Never mind the fact that even if every penny was taken from the ceo of a major company it would be a pittance spread across the company.
My experience with unions is getting screwed by them and me paying them to do it.
I understand that I'm old, and times have changed, that being said... I was raised on a farm in the 70's, if these people did this then, alot of them would never have left that farm. It's called trespassing, and intimidation tactics, and my grandfather would never have put up with it. Nobody should. That farm is private property.
My thoughts exactly. I'm thinking 'industrial accident'.
Communist terrorists on my property? No way.
Anymore crimes aren’t crimes, and non-crimes are crimes. Trespassing is ok, burning down buildings is ok, threatening (and often performing) bodily harm is ok - but if you defend life/property against these terrorists (definition = politically motivated, and violent), then you’re now the criminal. See Kyle Rittenhouse.
@@karlc4963 lol gross they named you carl with a k
@@karlc4963 All I can say is get armed, don't vote Democrat. I'm in Australia and we have some of the harshest gun control laws in the world and I'm getting armed, anyway. Can't not vote Democrat in Australia, that's all we have.
@@spacesoup6797 that hurts my feelings - heck man, I didn’t pick it! And shoot, your momma named you Space Soup!
Im not a farmer and this frustrates me! I guess its time to visit the governor at 4 in the morning at his house with a couple thousand farmers. Since its legal to trespass and make sure you have all the legalities about farming. It all comes down to socialism, you dont get to own anything, the government wants all
Every time I see a news story on California I just shake my head. I would not visit CA for free!
LOL this reminds me of Hank from KOH "We are going to visit all of the Continental United States excluding California". XD
CA is fun. You get to see, hear stuff a decade before it comes mainstream.
That is insane, imagine just working in the early morning hours, you just woke up maybe an hour go and BAM people storm in with megaphones, flags and yelling! I would have freaked out, it’s a natural response.
and if things escalated to violence, California would not allow you to defend yourself.
I'm in MN and I've met a big group of migrant (legal) workers that go back to my Brother in law's parents farm every year for work. They are the nicest, hardest working and loyal people I've ever met. They are treated like family, and there are sometimes 2-3 generations there working. I got to meet them all a couple years ago. I ended up cooking for 70 people and it was so fun. I ended up talking with a group about all the cool VWs that are down in their hometown.
I bought a nearly finished house outside of Memphis and the different crews were Hispanic and worked hard and fast. I wanted some extra brick work and approached the brick facing crew. We agreed on a price and he started but ran out of bricks BUT WOULD NOT TAKE PAY FOR THE BULK OF THE WORK so I dashed to the brick company and bought 2 dozen bricks and he came back and finished. Perfect work so I gave him a bonus.
Yeah but they aren't unionized, so they're obviously being exploited.
@@kitfisto1827 I trust you're joking. Not even a winky smiley so it's hard to tell.
I worked in an IBEW shop, they tried to tells us you don't want that 401k, go for a bigger pay increase. We voted the union out.
A pay increase means more money in the union's pockets. They want you dependent upon them for your retirement. A 401K is freedom from the union's will.
Unions used to be good and serve a purpose now they only serve themselves and big business. I have a book it's a joke.
@@gregsg2351 I feel like the ancients pretty much showed us what NOT to do... and here we are.
@@gregsg2351 nah. They are still good. But only in industries where they have a monopoly on labor
I work in an IBEW shop. Pension pool that cant be touched by company, company matched 401k and a 2-3% raise to keep up with inflation every year..When Biden crashes the economy that 401k will be worthless. My pension will still be there.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
- C.S. Lewis
One thing I can't stand is people quoting others in the comment sections. The tree of liberty....blood of patriots...Yeah, I know. I generally agree with you. Give me YOUR thoughts and stop quoting others.
All day long.
@@mr.wyodak2131 Just use your own brain and tell me what you think, it would be much more interesting than an overused, albeit, brilliant quote made by somebody else.
@@paulh7589
You sound like one of these totalitarian "union" thugs.
You want others to think, speak and act the way you want them to.
This quotes applies to the covidscam.
This is ridiculous...I feel so bad for this Farmer...Sad!!!
Bernie: Nobody should earn more than a million dollars, except me.
Notice that his screeds against "Millionaires and Billionaires" changed to just "Billionaires" after he made a million bucks on his capitalistic book deal.
@@timdake The left never notices anything, unless it helps their agenda. Otherwise they flat out ignore it or just right out deny it.
Bernie "Monarch of the Sea" Sanders.
A socialist makes millions on a book about the virtues of socialism. The sweet irony.
@@PeterDivine That tittle sounds interesting. Can you elaborate a little more on it?
Hey my first job was UNION!!!!! in California UFCW Grocery !!
Long story short....it broke the Mega-size Grocery Store (one of 2) and I was out of a job. After we were let go, the Union wasn't interested in speaking with us or helping in any way.
I was only 19 when I got my first (of many) "red-pills" about Unions and also how hard it is to operate a business in California....I managed Business in California and In the Midwest...it's like day and night.
California is a Vampire because of the LEft
The Democratic party is very similar to the Peronista Party in Argentina. Be very careful with those people.
A lot of people from Operation Paperclip were also in Argentina as well as the US.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. God Speed!
@@cameronledoux95 agreed - Guy claims to gross around $350,000.00 and must eat canned caviar and Fiji water only lmao. Godspeed
One step closer to taking your property away. So eerily familiar to the stories I heard as a kid from families leaving Cuba.
I just read an article (took place in Cali) about a couple that bought a house with cash for $560K (legally holding the title) and found that they couldn't move in because the previous owner decided he was going to stay (squatting). There is good reason it is called "Commifornia".
Gotta love how politicians say “get big money out of politics” then turn around and take money from unions.
And a voting block!
The only organization to ever be corrupted larger than the police- is the unions. 😁👋
@@michaelgreene1260 You know that police are employed locally and every department is operationally independent from another department right?
Slandering the occupation as a whole is unfounded and ignorant.
Unions help the nation. House boys whine about it...Master would be upset bc the workers are getting uppity. How can you live with yourself? You live from your knees.
@@djrychlak4443 Don't bother, 90% of the commenters here are farm bots. Ran from dictionary AIs or from middle India were they're hired to copy and paste responses
I had a union organizer show up to my home and knock on the door. Previous to this, my wife and I discussed her joining the union and we both came to the conclusion that she would be loosing hard earned compensation from her diligence and hard work through the years, and also had to pay someone for causing her to lose that. I decided to answer the door and it was a 300+ plus pound 6 foot 8 inch individual that asked to speak to my wife. I told him that he wasn't going to talk to her. He replied sternly that I couldn't stop him from talking to her. That's when I stepped to the side to show that a shotgun was behind me and told him that Oliver Winchester and I think otherwise. On the day that the union gathered everyone together to cast their votes, the union organizer made a remark that there better be all yes votes. When my wife stuffed her ballot, the intimidator told her that her vote better be yes or they would have to come talk to her. She replied that her husband was waiting patiently for such a moment.
I'm getting warm fuzzies.
That all sounds like a lie. Especially the part where you threatened him with a shotgun.
And that's why you need guns👍
@@xyoungblood Just let him see the weapon, and referred to the founder of the company. As far as a union being a bunch of pimps making a living off the backs of others, that's set in history.
Protect your own. Respect.
Farmers and farm workers I salute you. You provide the food I need so thank you very much. Unions, stay off of anyone's private property!
Migrant workers = indentured servitude change my mind
@Bill New York Totally agree with you there. It is all capitalism. The workers all made a choice when the opportunity presented itself, and are personally responsible for their wellbeing and choices.
When a union strikes, they call the people who are hired to replace them "scabs" - they are taking our jobs!
Really?
The job belongs to the person who created it, not the worker. "Your job" means it's the job you agreed to do for the paycheck from the owner of the job. In other words, the job itself is NOT yours.
A person who takes a job that belongs to someone else and claims it as his own is a "scab"? Every union member, by their own definition, is a scab.
Our company wont even look at an electricians resume if hes in a union. Ive worked around union guys on and off for years. They are some of the laziest slow sloppy workers ive ever seen. Milking wage jobs just to get extra hours. Overly long break and way too often.
@@brandona4618 You haven't seen Puerto Rican Unions in action. Our company(AEE), finally declared bankruptcy because union workers and upper class were getting away with murder.
Dey turk ur jabs!
Every step forward government takes, we the people have to take three steps back.
DING - DING - DING, And there in lies the problem. You state that like it is ""JUST THE WAY IT IS, DEAL WITH IT"" & do not offer any kind of solution to that accepted as normal, total cluster fuck way of ""LIFE IN THE BIG CITY, PAL"". Everyone has forgotten that we have a government ""OF, BY & FOR THE PEOPLE"", not the other way around. At the very least, it is upon us to research those candidates that are trying to get on the ticket at the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION of each cycle, the PRIMARIES, as that is when & how the NEW BLOOD enters the political circus, otherwise it just remains...SAME OL, SAME OL, PERIOD !!!
@@uncletookie9102 TRU-DAT & THESE DAYS ALL THESE YOUNGSTERS WANT EVERYTHING.........RIGHT NOW & DON'T EVEN GET TO THE END OF A SONG BEFORE THEY WANT/NEED/DEMAND A NEW ""DANCE PARTNER"".
I've been a proud member of UAW for 31 years. But I have to say that I agree somewhat with this farmer. When we organized back in the day, we did it from outside on public property. The workers have to go home sometime. We passed out literature as they passed and we organized private meetings away from the plant such as rallies and cookouts. We did not interfere with the companies productivity. This type of organizing seems more like intimidation in my opinion.
Some props please for our mr Stossel, uploading high quality premium videos like a madman. And he doesn't have to.
He really is doing God's work.
Sounds like a Supreme Court case to me. There's a lot of 'fertilizer' between the ears in Sacramento
They certainly are not growing any good ideas with the fertilizer.
Sacramento is turning into a shithole.
Drive along Roseville Road or take 160 into downtown and you can see some examples pf the 'Hoovervilles' popping up, and along Roseville Road it's particularly disgusting.
When the state finally gets around to cleaning these areas up, the workers have to wear hazmat suits.
California officials: "These union protestors are not intrusive."
*union mobsters storm the state's capitol and officials' private properties
Forgot to mention that mob in DC killed a cop.
@@bender9222222222 If you talk of the January 6th event, that's been disproven. The officer had a stroke. There was no blunt force trauma.
@Dylan Leaman Anderson they deleted my comment wtf. Lol
@Dylan Leaman Anderson I had no idea that you would be so afraid of something more than the deepstate... the truth.
@@bender9222222222 you mean the truth about how the Left ignored insurgents in Portland that were trying to kill cops and burn down buildings with people inside them every night for 8 months? Is that the kind of truth we're afraid of?
4:11 The flag of The United Farm Workers is really giving me strange vibes.....
I think it’s hysterical that no one is calling them on the blocky nazi eagle! They even acted like the nazis did before the killings started by storming into places they were not supposed to be with a huge crowd of people yelling and waving red flags around…😂
What's going on in the USA is very alarming. It makes me feel that you are going through a process similar to what happened in Argentina, the country where I live, where fascists and socialists and "moderates" ending up transforming a great country into a miserable, hopeless place.
Stay strong dude. Hope it will work out for you. I still think that America and Argentina have great potential for being great
The USA politicians allow this.
Move to the US and help keep it free lol. I always love seeing new people here
or late 1920s Germany.
The entire continent of America is fucked by filthy politicians.
My union is pretty good at taking my money. That’s about it.
Oh and handing your shift off to the guys with seniority I love that....
My dad worked for Anheiswer Busch for 30 years and paid them for nothing the whole time. He was an excellent worker. They almost didn't hire him in the 1970's because he wasn't willing to pay the union a bribe. His supervisor wanted him real bad so the bosses made a deal to keep him to get rid of another guy that didn't know shit.
Please find your union leaders (aka criminals) and shoot them in the head.
@@Barskor1 Yup, I work nights 2 (Thurs-Sunday 5pm to 5am). Ask me how much I enjoy that.
@@johnferris7906 I was pretty much forced to sign on with the union, I wouldn’t have gotten hired if I didn’t. But at least a union rep gave me a ball cap! It’s now the most expensive hat I own. 700 bucks and counting.
Flying red flags: tell me how unions aren’t communists?
Bright red flag, white circle in the middle, and an all black, rigid eagle with both wings symmetrically out and the head turned to the side. Hmmmmm sounds familiar...
@epiccollision I’ve read the communist manifesto, so don’t try me with that crap. And the whole “dear” thing is patronizing, this isn’t tiktok.
Unions are socialist, red flag waving groups that want the means of production to be owned by the workers, this is precisely what these unions want; they want to control their income on a group level rather than individual level, control the laws pertaining towards employers and even the right to enter private property as long as it it seems as Union or worker concern.
And as the great Marty Robbins said “communism, socialism call it what you like, there’s very little difference in the two, Now ain’t I right?”
P.S. Marx stated that the end goal of socialism is always full communism, dictatorship of the proletariat (aka direct democracy)
@epiccollision Invading private property and political activity at a non-political workplace is the DEFINITION of commuism. I was born in such a communist county (former Czechoslovakia) and it even had it's name in the USSR and the satellite states: AGITPROP (agitation and propaganda). Every workplace had an agitprop bureau which was responsible for indoctrination and to rat on employees which were deemed not Marxist enough.
@@ws5273 bro you murdered his ass💀💀💀
Have you EVER worked in a Collective Bargaining Unit Position???? Even know what that means??
This one is local for me, and it is going to the Supreme Court!! I hope Mike wins!
Unions: "Nice farm bud. Sure would be a shame..."
Sounds like the mafia
@@jjosephm7539 When the unions were first created they actually had the mafia help "persuade" people to join them.
@@aidangattinger8975 please check your facts before posting here. The first union in the USA was started in 1794 and the mine unions were started in 1890's due to safety conditions. Organized crime did not come to the USA until the 1920's. Unions were necessary and useful for higher wages and safety until they became perverted like everything else in the USA. we now have minimum wages. OSHA and MSHA to keep the people safe
@@edwardwilson3411 There was "Organized Crime" in the USA before the 1920's they just did not use that term.
My father told me stories from a young GDR he had witnessed. There was one story about a farmer who was visited by some officials when the GDR forced farmers into collectives. They visited that farmer with several people to have a 'talk' and while others where doing the talking, one guy casually took a gun out of his pocket and started to play with it. Just be a good drone and understand that socialism and collectivism are fun!
John, thank you for your continued effort to get the truth out.
Was assigned to Los Angeles for 6 years, and spent most of that time wishing I was not there. They have lost their mind.
I worked union for a few years back in the 70s and left the union and made 3 times as much with out them and had more work under unions I was constantly layed off.
God bless John Stossel for standing up to Big labor
The Janus Ruling was one of the best court rulings lately. Because people shouldn’t be FORCED to be part of a union they don’t want to be part of, nor have their paychecks garnished by a union that supposedly “represents” them.
Some of the things a union steward has to defend are unbelievable. As an example while being a Union steward and employee was written up for doing her nail polish instead of her data entry job during her working hours, which she could have done during her lunch or breaks. Had to find a way to get her off the hook and went with the "she broke a nail and was trying to remedy the problem" thing. Sometimes it's a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. I ended up pissing of her assistant supervisor who started swearing at me, she got a 3 day LOA by her boss, but the worker got off. Go figure huh?
Yeah I got myself a job with my skill-set and was railroaded to joining the union in Washington. Totally lame. But, they did offer some good benefits to offset. You really have to sit down and read through and weigh the pros-cons. Not everything will be perfect for everyone. It's your choice to decide whether you want to join or not. The whole 'brother this brother that' thing is totally whack. That's about the only big complaint I had. But, free college, good insurance, free language classes, free certificate classes, that outweighed the lame shit, in my opinion.
My union "represents me" by spending my dues on newsletters full of endorsements for political candidates, 100% Democrats.
@@nobodyspecial2655 I'm in a union office and had a staff member so loudly and routinely berate her direct supervisor that people outside our section thought that SHE was HIS boss. When he dared stand up to her she tried to play the race card. After being written up about ten times and suspended more than once, they transferred her rather than fire her.
@@sillykanji And having those benefits are great, however it shouldn't forced on someone at gun point. Sounds like in your situation you would have joined the union anyway, a union that competes for your membership is a union that actually works for their members not for union bosses.
The United Farm Workers insignia strongly resembles the symbol of a certain German socialist party from the 1930s.
It's missing the swastika but the tactics used are similar.
Waiting for some socialist to say the Nazis weren't socialist, won't be long now...
Wehrmachtbefehlshaber
I’m a superintendent for a general contractor in Utah. I was building a Jr. High from 2012-2014. There were over 230,000 blocks on that job, which meant.... there were a lot of masons involved. We had the masonry union there a few times trying the get them (a private business) to join their union. They were aggressive, not tactful and annoying. We had to tell them, “you can talk to them when they’re off work and not on our site.” Not one of them gave the union the time of day cause their boss and owner of the company took care of them and valued their efforts.
This is legitimately insane. What universe do these "demonstrators" live in where they think they're the good guys?
Pretty sure they know they're not the good guys, which makes this even worse.
@@JamesCasatelli I don't think anyone views themselves as the bad guy. Everyone justifies their actions.
@@CharlieMikeNS I disagree. I think they know what they’re doing is wrong and they don’t care because they profit from it. Evil is evil.
@@JamesCasatelli I'm not justifying their actions, they're obviously doing wrong here. I'm saying _they don't think they are_ . People justify their actions. This isn't comic book land, people don't want to be the bad guy. Even serial killers rationalize and justify their actions.
Craigslist runs ads for activists all the time. These people don't care what the cause is, they just want their paycheck. Soros contributes millions to these groups.
4:12 that logo looks awfully familiar but I just can’t put my finger on it.....
Something about a failed Austrian painter comes to mind
It sort of looks like the tecate beer logo, but I know where you’re going...
@@uptheworker very familiar indeed
@@alfstewart2592 Damn you Charlie Chaplin!!!
It reminds me of Mecha. A violent Hispanic separatist movement.
Just add an Aztec war club and a lit stick of dynamite.
The farm workers union sure has an interesting logo, taking some inspiration from 1940 Germany :D
Wehrmachtbefehlshaber
I have been to California only once, and I vowed never to go back. It was the right thing to do.
Then that makes two of us, left kommiefornia in 2015, born and raised there now people are seeing how bad that place is.🤦
I've been a cdl truck driver in California delivering gasoline to stations for 22 years with no lunch breaks or overtime pay. The unions won't even talk to us.
It's not the company that screwed you, it's the state. They created the exemptions that allow companies to not have to pay you overtime.
I’ve worked construction my whole life. To me, unions have only ever been bullies, period. All they do is come onto a job, tell us we are not professionals, then call the safety board on us. I do well for myself, I don’t need ANY unions help.
What trade are you in Mr. Gaylord
Thank a union man for establishing a decent wage, 40 hr workweek, overtime pay... You're welcome, you do it all on your own 🤣 yeah ok🤣😂🤣
@@pauls3117 he is a full of it
@@pauls3117 lol. Keep thinking that way. And maybe a union can teach you how to properly read. I said I do well for myself (I own and operate my own company).
Unions are bullies in the construction industry.
@@825burger It's not perfect by no means but has been good to me as a worker, and there are many benefits to being a union contractor as well. I mean that is if you don't mind paying your men fairly, just saying 🤷🏻♂️
I'm a 33yr union man (I.B.E.W.), I believe a Union can and should be able to inform worker of the benefits of unionizing WITHOUT interrupting a companies work. Your message should be strong enough to stand on its own, without intimidation.
I belong to a teachers union and hate it. I can leave the union any time I want to thanks to the supreme court. The issue is that I get a million dollar liability insurance with the membership. If that were ever taken away from my membership I would leave the union.
They bully, intimidate, pry into private lives, etc.
And, for a union to be allowed to just invade a private farm or property is just insane. But then I am seeing this article from California
Also, a friend of mine owns a small business. He always paid his employees very well and over union wages and benefits because he felt they were worth it. He's got plenty of money and doesn't really need the business anymore. He told me numerous times that if the workers unionized he would just close down the business.
John you are one of a very few Journalist I can find that actually uses common sense to get the facts about a story. Keep doing this and I will continue to watch your stories. you are the best!
Unions invade private property.
Basically the everyday threat you live under if your workers are unionised.
"Workers remain isolated from the flow of information that is characteristic of modern society."
So, this congressman doesn't think a farm worker knows how the internet works.
Quite literally the contemptuous and condescending attitude that most politicians have of rural people. Meanwhile, farmers and ranchers are some of the most well rounded jack of all trades and, many times extremely well educated with engineering degrees and the like, people in this country.
That's exactly what he thinks. I especially liked the part when he asked sarcastically, and I'm paraphrasing here so... "So every one of these workers has access to a cell phone or internet?". Then the very next shot pans to a group of workers on break, every one of them using a smart phone, or at the least you can see one present even if it isn't being used.
They only care if they checked the correct voting box... They'll tell you how to do everything after that.
The Supreme Court struck down the regulation! Thank you John Stossel for Educating me on this unique regulation and to continue to protect the invasion of private individuals rights and property!
I just read that too and immediately thought of this video! Great win!
thanks for informing us John! Your journalism is appreciated! Keep it up!
They don't make 'em like you anymore John. Keep up the good work!
They sure don't. That mustache is so 1970. It's also a socialist
Agriculture and our national food production is the last thing that needs to turn sluggish, expensive, and unproductive from unionization.
Wonder why Gates, Bezos, and the like are buying up massive amounts of farmland?
@@cazgerald9471 Probably to cash in on "farm subsidies".
Maybe we should argue that everyone can have a "brief and unobtrusive" visit to any politician's home since they work for the public.
“They would join our cause if they would only stop being selfish and let us tell them how their lives are sub-par and beneath ours.”
Wow. They really can’t hear themselves sometimes huh?
Looks like alot of free fertilizer
This is when you hire “private security” to follow the demonstrators back to wherever they came from when they leave, the next time they decide to show up.
Call ICE to check papers on them if they do their job that union mob is going to thin out real fast.
California is soon to be annexed by Mexico by popular demand as most all the “residents” are Mexican now
@@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624 It is a possibility more and more likely every day.
I feel bad for the 25 workers from the farm who joined the union they probably thought the grass was greener on the other side
Until the dues come out and you start earning less.
Are union dues still at 2 hours of pay per month? Been a long time since I was in a union. Seems like wasted money if they have no complaints with the company thus far.
Why is the grass always green on the other side?
It's fertilized with bullsh*t.
Astroturf
John Stossel does the dirty work other journalists are too scared to do! Thats why people love him
Don’t let them in! Tell the government to pound sand, and physically remove the unwanted.
The Blue Gang will just follow orders get people hurt or murdered because Duh Laaw!
If they don't fix dumb laws like this, the whole damn state of Kommiefornia is going to rot on the vine.
Probably what they want!
I'm sure it's one of the many reasons for the recall effort
United Farm workers flag looks awfully familiar. Pretty sure I’ve seen that before somewhere.
I had to check if the circle was off center, because if it would've been it'd be even more of a straight up rip-off than it is already...
Look up Cesar Chaves flag
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@@hoppyandhisholidayhelpers1714 ja das stimmt, ich dachte auch an die dritte Reichsflagge
@@MrClownWorld - naturally. Nazi was also socialist workers like farm union.
Unions are thugs nowadays. There was a time when they were needed because of the conditions but today you can read reviews and leave reviews of places. Nothing forces YOU to work at any place. You can pick where you want to work.
Unions were never needed, we needed automation and better tools to make jobs safer and more plentiful.