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Damned right you are and more than you care to realize! Because the higher pay unionized car workers got paid ended up in the cash registers of a heck of a lot more businesses than GM, Ford, and Dodge!
I don't know where you are but - not around here - pretty darn competitive - hence why Unions don't do well here for the most part -
And then you have jobs where you got Union and Non Union working on the same site -
The union rate sets the bar. Talent chases money and historically the union jobs pay better. Thus the non union employer must either meet the union rate or use inferior help; usually the non union employer is content to get what he gets paying less.
Even when they meet union rate on the check non union employers don't meet the total package of the union rate---pension, insurance, vacation pay and such. They hope to get younger and more naive workers who aren't looking down the road at their future.
When I was an apprentice teacher in my trade we had many young people who came over to us from the non union side. I never saw anyone go the other way.
When you get right down to it, what "rights" do worker have to expect:
Safe working conditions (as safe as the particular job permits)
Non Discrimination based on the various protected classes
To be paid, for their work, in the amount and timing as agreed to when hired
To receive whatever benefits, if any, were offered at the time of hiring
That's about it
The point is - the employer is not necessarily obligated in many cases to provide benefits such as health insurance, vacations etc. Benefits are simply a "contract" matter between the employee and employer. Many however seem to believe that benefits are REQUIRED - and they are not.
When I was an apprentice teacher in my trade we had many young people who came over to us from the non union side. I never saw anyone go the other way.
In Las Vegas, the CCEA - the Clark County Education Association (Union), in one of the fastest growing school districts in the country, is LOSING members - the Union has been totally ineffective. There has been fraud. Teachers just don't want them anymore. They are doing better WITHOUT the union
In Las Vegas, the CCEA - the Clark County Education Association (Union), in one of the fastest growing school districts in the country, is LOSING members - the Union has been totally ineffective. There has been fraud. Teachers just don't want them anymore. They are doing better WITHOUT the union
No doubt there are badly run unions. There are also badly run companies but that is no reason to not have companies, know what I mean?
It is in the employees of Wal-Mart's best interest to vote Republican. I have no problem with the executives of Wal-Mart pointing that out to the retards who work there.
It is in the employees of Wal-Mart's best interest to vote Republican. I have no problem with the executives of Wal-Mart pointing that out to the retards who work there.
You just insulted over a million Americans...
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