Posted on 06/21/2007 5:32:05 AM PDT by gpapa
WASHINGTON -- Democracy is rule by persuasion, but the unpersuasive often try to coerce the unpersuaded. Recent days have provided two illustrations of this tendency, both of them pertaining to labor unions, whose decades of declining membership testify to their waning power to persuade workers that unions add more value to workers' lives than they subtract.
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Fear of retaliation keeps many workers from going union.
Don’t you meant “against the union”?
Don’t you meant “against the union”?
Once again Scalia shows why in my opnion he should be Chief Justice !!!
My husband belongs to a union. Membership is mandatory. The union is highly political - on the other side of the aisle, of course. They harass us with constant phone calls at election time. He doesn’t dare open his mouth for fear of retaliation.
No
Why doesn’t he quit?
Why doesn’t he quit? Are you serious? He’s almost 60 years old.
If unions can’t get voted in with a secret ballot its because the workers don’t want them.
This situation you described, his fear of retaliation if he speaks out against the union’s policies, it’s a recent development, then?
“{People understand that a vote for a union is a vote for losing your job when the plant closes.”
Ahhh, then you want us to believe that only union plants are closing?
Recent in that he has only worked where he does since 2002. Beyond this would be divulging too much personal info.
“Fear of retaliation keeps many workers from going union.”
Fear of business owners making rational economic decisions when additional unexpected costs are heaped onto the cost of doing business and doing things like closing plants is not a misplaced or inappropriate consideration when deciding whether to bring a union in.
Unions are to businesses what ARMs are to homeowners.....unpredictable costs.
“Ahhh, then you want us to believe that only union plants are closing?”
Absolutely not. Unprofitable plants are the ones that close. A Union plant is usually less (much less) profitable for labor-intensive business.
You want us to believe that Unions increase productivity and profits for a plant owner?
The non union factories that close are for the most part because they were suppliers for union plants.
Your husband is probably enjoying better wages and benefits, because he is working union, than he would otherwise enjoy.
The situation in America is this: we have a two party system and an almost infinite variety of personal preferences, and interests, which must be shoe-horned into that two party system. The Democratic Party has made an effort to be friendly to organized labor, the Republican Party has, for the most part, spurned organized labor. The result needs no explanation.
“Unions are to businesses what ARMs are to homeowners.....unpredictable costs.”
If a non-union worker is a screw-up, he can move from employer to employer and continue his pattern.
A union worker understands that there are many employers, but only one union, and in today’s market the union wants to ensure the success of all it’s companies, thus a screw-up is soon out the door.
“You want us to believe that Unions increase productivity and profits for a plant owner?”
Union workers get better wages and benefits, thus they are happier than non-union. Happy workers are more productive.
LOL.
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