Why does employers make it harder for people to form unions for better pay?
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Texas Tomcat
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Maybe they cannot afford the costs? Really, look at non-union verses union. Look at the benfits and then find out the longtimers at the comapny and /or plants See whose REALLY doing the work. I did work as a temp at a coke distributor. The supervisor and 5 others (Not uncluding me and another guy) busted ass all night long. But there was an older guy who filled 2 of the route trucks..This was in 8 hours. All the others could do a truck in 45min-1 hour. Why? He had 25 years there, was so senior to others that they finally just stuck him to night shift. The supervisor was the only guy who could get him to do anything.. Guy was a tad mental I suspect. Glad I left.
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They do not want the extra costs,and the regulations that require them to treat their employees the proper wages.Unions are important and strong unions can work their way into any business.
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To keep 'em under their thumbs, no? ;-)
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By federal law, the deck is stacked in favor of unions. http://www.union-organizing.com/rights.html People will not join unions for several reasons. Essentially all the union trucking companies are out of business and the teamsters' retirement fund would go broke if it were not for the money coming from UPS employees. Two of the three union-driven auto companies are in government bankruptcy receivership thanks to years of union extortion. The cost and the work restrictions of working with union longshoremen is what brought about the container shipping industry. A union may get you a fatter paycheck under threat of a strike but would make the organization's products and services overpriced and undercompetitive. People are smart enough to see that. The only sector where unions thrive is government, which usually competes with nothing. Also, government's power to tax grows continuously and will grow that much more if the current administration keeps getting its way.
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The point of unions wasn't simply wages. It used to be to get better working coniditions, etc. Think about it. If you have a union, you pay money out of your pocket to the union. So yes... you may get a wage increase, but that money goes to the union who got the increase. There are a number of workers I know who would be happy without a union because they don't help anything. You're forced to strike with them whether or not you agree, and lose wages. You have to give them the union dues whether or not you want to be part of the union. You want better wages? Find a better job.
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