2011-01-17, 11:43 PM
Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:And lastly, they need to disband unions. This isn't the early 20th century anymore where workers aren't protected by local, state, and federal laws. Unions now are more or less an excuse of what they were originally supposed to do which was protect worker's right. Now by comparison, they serve only to bleed companies dry and force them to pay wages that are not only unnecessarily high, but also pay for people who have already retired from the company as well. You think I'm wrong, look at GM's situation with the UAW and the retiree's GM is forced to support.
Unions are great for police and teachers, for one thing. They make sure that those in the union are treated equally, get paid a fare rate, and can't be fired without a sound reason. An example: without a union, one can be fired for disagreeing with a superior. If that person was in a union then the union'd intervene in the situation and, if the worker was in the right, they'd fight to let that person keep their job.