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[i]Originally posted by red-beard
]Unions? They came together to protect the jobs and wages of members from being taken by people willing to do those jobs for less money. The companies "exploited" this.
Unions were racist in origin. [/B]
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Henry Ford back in 1910 started paying his workers $5 a day which was an unheard of wage for an auto worker..all the other manufacturers were oposed and told Henry so....Problem was Henry couldn't even keep workers at $5 a day. The job was just too boring and working conditions were horrible.
Red your take on the rise of the auto Unions is miscued...When you wroked for Ford if you took too long on the crapper they came and yanked you off. Ford literally ran his own secret police.... as did the other companies...
Unions werre Racist...BS....The auo comapnies were racist.. yeah...they would only hire the Blacks to work in the most awefull jobs ...working in the Foundry....yet 100's of thousands of Blacks migrated to Detroit to work in the auto companies...because it was better than back home...and during WW2 the migration increased because so many workers departed for military service...
The rise of the Auto Workers Union in the late 1930's gave the workers decent wages, retirement and DECENT working conditions....it also enabled the American Middle class to broaden out to what it is now....
So don't knock the Uniions for what they orginally started out to do....the first generation leaders were about the workers even the second but after that Unions became big business as Labour Brokers only interested in the Health and Welfare payments the Companies chip in...
Ohhhh and how do I know all of this ...MY Grandpa spent 43 years in the Rouge starting in 1916, my Daddy was a Tool and Die Maker for Paxckard in the 1930's and 40's, My Graddpas cousin retired from Pontiac, his son installed the first Computer automated automobile production system in the world for Chrysler in 1962, LECTURED the JAPANESE on how to install them and went to Russia and helped install one ove there in the early 1970's......and my Dad's Cousins Wife was Jimmy Hoffas Secratary....(She was the literal fly on the wall).