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Originally Posted by Lafourche1
To put another light on this. The workers took several cuts during the 2008-2010 time frame. This was a cut in wages and benefits. GM made > $11,000,000,000 in pre-tax profit last fiscal year. That $11 Billion. Workers wanting to have some of their work rewarded in not only logical, it is fair.
Unions are simply responsible for living wages, worker safety, healthcare, retirement and a host of other benefits that are now accepted across the work place. Another, over-looked, feature of unions is that for every union job, there are 7-8 non-union jobs that carry near equal pay and benefits.
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work is just.
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+1 No big fan of the union and their dues but they do provide that umbrella of a fair fight for the working class. Overall middle class America is almost a fallacy.
Plenty of college grads, experienced qualified professions, and middle managers struggle to stay middle class. Taxes, cost of living, and family healthcare and including debts of higher education, mortgage/rent is drowning out the majority.
Until they are checks and balances and true government reform with cost of living wages adjusted to GDP growth and inflation the corporate execs, stockholders will squeeze the labor wages to save their profit margins.
Large corporations have the net worth to support higher wages and benefits but won't and why should they. The bigger dog is king in controlling cost of living wages across the board. If Johnny X is paid on $30 per hour and happy then Johnny Z will most likely be paid about the same in another company. They are wage labor consultants that suggest the labor rate across the profession and that will be the range. If Johnny Z says no then Big dog corp will say hit the bricks..
Good that we still have the right to protest but taking that pay cut on a picket line is a hard pill to swallow. Overall hope the fight will produce what is needed to stay middle class for the majority. Time will only tell.