sraines2001 wrote:Labor Unions have a time and place to help those who are unable to help themselves. However in Canada and the US, two countrys that have the highest standards of living, are probably not that place anymore. If the Unions truly wanted to help us here they would pack their bags, move to a third world country that makes $.10 an hour and organize them and do as they did here in the early 20 th century. Therefore labor costs would be more equal throughout the world and companys would no longer have an excuse to out-source. We would all pay more for products, but we would also make more. For once maybe the poor would get richer and the richer would get poorer, that would be a nice change. Thoughts??
The Man gets the union that he deserves.
Great companies with reasonable management and fair policies don't usually end up with unions.
Companies run by a ship of fools who continually try and screw their workers will usually end up with a union, which will complicate their lives and almost invariably decrease their competitiveness.
Unless you're talking about pilots, who are usually more interested in screwing each other over to worry about what the man is doing. Otherwise, why the hell would we have qualified pilots working the ramp or behind a ticket counter?
But like I said, The Man gets the union he deserves.