YoungZ.W. |
02-28-2008 07:43 PM |
My sincere apologizes Timberwolf. I am not as much anti-union as I appear. Its just in my neck of the woods we used to have a great amount of industrialization with a strong unionized workforce. Just with the downturn in the economy a lot of these factories were struggling, and to make matters worse the unions around here propositioned their workers to intialtionaly strike, saying that the factories were in better positions then what they were saying. So the workers striked got their raises and health benefits increased and eventually lost their jobs due to the factories not being able to substain themselves with the added increase of wages along with the slowdown of business. In the past 8 years we have lost 3 factories in my county that consisted of about 5500 jobs in a county of 33,000 people. The national unemployment rate last I knew was about 4% I think, my county is about 9.5 to 10%. I'm not going to blame that on the union labor entirely because there could have more done on both sides. I'm a little more in favor of business that support their workers even though they are not unionized as opposed to business that are at the helm of their employees because of labor unrest mainly because my parents are small business owners so from a young age I have seen that things do not always appear as they seem. I'm pretty young only 22 and although I never was without, and occasionally never with :lol: growing up I learned that in order to get what you want in life you must earn it. I glad to see that you are successful and happy, as so I am. Whether or not some one wants to join a union is in their own freewill to do so and as the Wagner Act states workers have the right to form unions. Just some times what gets my goat is when people act as though it is their god given right to have that job and the company has to provide benefits. There is not statute of law requiring employers to provide benefits, which we all most remember. So the moral of these somewhat story is be thankful for what you have and also what you don't have. God Bless and take care.
YoungZ.W.
To the orginal creator of this topic I apolize for high jacking the thread.
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