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by More2Be on October 10th, 2009
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.
by Elfie on October 10th, 2009
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.
by philosopher-saint on October 10th, 2009
To keep 'em under their thumbs, no?
;-)
by jin jang on October 10th, 2009
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.
by EmptyWallet on October 2nd, 2009
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.
by machinerat on November 10th, 2010
Much like modern feminism, the major battles have already been won, but today unions seem to be going too impractically far. Rather than fihgting for rights or honest wages, it seems to more about defending someone from being fired no matter how bad of an employee they were.
by AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao! on October 31st, 2010
They want to keep as much money as possible, and if they pay you more, they will get to keep less of it.
They need your labor, otherwise they would not have hired you at all, and when labor organizes they fear that they will not be able to have as much control over a number of factors in their business, all of which tend to increase their costs if organized labor is involved.
by FlyingUbercapitalistPig on November 10th, 2010
Unions are basically organized ways of closing down companies. Are you asking why a company would prefer to say in business?
Unions had a place many decades ago. Since then they have been so prostituted and corrupted they provide zero useful benefit to anyone except the union bosses. Most non union companies offer better pay and better benefits then their union counterparts. They also have more productivity. Go to a union shop and watch how the workforce goes about daily life. Unions are horrible ideas and hurt the chances of any company staying long term.
by angie1789 on November 10th, 2010
lol, the answer is in the question .
by JPsgirl on November 10th, 2010
Yeah... why DOES employers?
by Cloud35 on October 31st, 2010
Because most employers just seem to want to be a butthead making everything hard for employees. That's been my experience anyway.
Prisoners forming a union? What do you think of this:
by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on March 16th, 2011
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I am now working in a company producing LED panels. I haven't sold a product now. I want to know how can I find my customers? Thank you.
by susanzhang007 on December 3rd, 2010
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Whether you are a union or non union worker how have some of these union actions affected your life?
by Wynper on March 1st, 2011
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What do you think of this statement? "Union membership is one of the most elemental human rights." - Ronald Reagan
by Wynper on February 23rd, 2011
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Do unions actually believe that workers are entitled to high pay without working to make their companies successful?
by Piano Player on February 12th, 2011
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