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Yeah, but didn't you know the benevolent and loving corporations would have done all those things for the American worker out of the kind goodness of their hearts?
Yes, like Paul Ryan's call to end the 40 hour week, and overtime!
Did you know that labor unions made the following 36 things possible?
Weekends without work
All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks
Paid vacation
Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Sick leave
Social Security
Minimum wage
Civil Rights Act/Title VII - prohibits employer discrimination
8-hour work day
Overtime pay
Child labor laws
Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
40-hour work week
Workers’ compensation (workers’ comp)
Unemployment insurance
Pensions
Workplace safety standards and regulations
Employer health care insurance
Collective bargaining rights for employees
Wrongful termination laws
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
Whistleblower protection laws
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) - prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee
Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises)
Sexual harassment laws
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Holiday pay
Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
Privacy rights
Pregnancy and parental leave
Military leave
The right to strike
Public education for children
Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 - requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work
Laws ending sweatshops in the United States
More union lies for the sheeple. Most of these gains were made simply because the marketplace required businesses to lure qualified people with good benefits.
Just like the marketplace started shifting jobs overseas to divest themselves of union thuggery.
More union lies for the sheeple. Most of these gains were made simply because the marketplace required businesses to lure qualified people with good benefits.
Just like the marketplace started shifting jobs overseas to divest themselves of union thuggery.
These marketplace corporations are such good people, and never hired lawyers to fight enactment of these laws either? Their deep civic pride outsourced to other countries to increase profits. Union, and non union have been outsourced, so your theory is a croc, and your message is for the sheep. I know a guy who was in management with Meryvns (non union) who got laid off at 50 when it went bankrupt. These wonderful marketplace profiteers bought Meryvns from Dayton Hudson and dismantled it for profit.
Don't get me started about Enron, Reliant, and Duke energy and how they stole 50 billion from California's citizens. Your wonderful market place has way more thugs, crooks, and thieves than any union. Union's have so much federal oversight it is ridiculous.
My guess would be you have little knowledge of Taft Hartley, the Wagner Act, the Fitzgerald Act, or ERISA laws. If corporations had reasonable requirements similar Bernie Madoff would have been jailed years ago. You do remember Bernie, and his actions in the marketplace.
And even those are 3x what India pays for a new SUV.
And you suggested it was the unions fault? Why is the non union Toyota cost more? Should Toyota pay the same wages that are paid in third world India? Would Texan's work for such paltry wages?
Again, how is this price difference a union fault?
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