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Originally Posted by NICKG
wel Supe..i hate to tell you this but Unons have run their corse here in the USA and are more a burden than a help...unless of course you are the uneducated , unskilled dolt who gets a gold lined parachute for working in one.
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Yeah? And I'm 100% confident that unions will exist when my granddaughter has grand kids. Unless of course, the gubmit does a sufficient job of protecting workers. Which won't happen. As long as management continues to make decisions with an eye on stockholders' interests.....there will be unions.
You're focused on wages and benefits being too high in the auto industry. As debt and inflation and other poor management decisions continue, and as "real" wages fall as a consequence, it will look more and more as though unions are at fault for throttling businesses with high wages and bennies. But to reach this conclusion, two things have to be ignored. One is the fact that unions occupy half the bargaining table. On the other side is management. Collective bargaining agreements require management buyoff and management signature. the other thing is that affluence is why wages rose in the first place. Reduce affluence and wages will look artificially high. That is what has happened, and will continue to happen.