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Originally Posted by bluebelt1234
Yes, unions are worse than corporations. They are demanding benefits so high that a company can no longer pay a worker and be profitable. I would rather take a cut in pay and benefits than become a mere beggar looking for scraps from the government. Being unemployed is FAR WORSE than taking a cut in pay and benefits.
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B.S. Who decides how many times a cut in pay should happen? Who will look out for your interests as a worker? Who will strive to include you the worker in the financial outcome of your labor? Who will care about you when you are too sick or injured to work? Who will go to the government on behalf of the workers interests and attempt to pass legislation restricting hours worked or your care when you are injured on the job?
If you answered "the boss" on any of the above questions you probably will be disappointed when these issues come to the fore on your job. The boss is looking out for his own interests, and that is as it should be in a free society. On the other hand the worker likewise needs to look out for his own interests, singularly the worker can be ignored or worse pitted against other workers for a competition to see who is hurting enough to accept the boss's lowest wage and benefit offer, together and organized the workers can make demands on an otherwise uncaring boss. The boss goes to the cheap labor markets because they're cheap period, no union will accept their members living in third world conditions just to assure a profit.
For those who contend that unions are driving out the US business's to foreign countries, what is the driving force of those leaving the US who aren't union employers? Think about it, this nation was at one time ran by some of the most ruthless employers you would ever want to see, there were no unions, do you want to go back to those days when the boss was God? Unions are really more relevant today than they were in the last fifty years, workers are getting screwed every where, jobs are flowing to those countries where labor is not just cheap, life itself is cheap in these low wage nations. Don't let the rich boys paid radio mouthpieces sway you, think for yourself and ask yourself if you think your boss really cares about you.