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Originally Posted by BlackonblackV6_2010
He's also completely oblivious to the fact he has no idea how hard the jobs are in a manufacturing based setting, now don't get me wrong I'm ex GM worker myself and the Union has strayed from it's old school principals. If it wasn't for Union based shops we would all be treated like Chinese immigrant workers and then where would we be.
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That is pure fantasy. Examples?
The union was little more than a paid henchmen for big business for almost a century in NE Tennessee, SE Kentucky, and West Virginia as it relates to coal because, to do so, was in their best financial interest at the time. Working conditions were terrible, pay was not commensurate with the labor involved, and employees on strike were threatened, beaten, and killed as recently as the 1970's with the union doing absolutely nothing of meaning to prevent it. In fact, as stated earlier, it eventually became obvious that the companies and the unions were in bed together more often than not.
To the contrary, Henry Ford pioneered the notion of a modern, living wage with good benefits well before the unions sunk their proverbial claws into Detroit. You can keep the union and the corruption they bring, I'll continue to earn a very nice living because I do what I do very well.