Yes lets all go back to the pre-union days of sixty hour work weeks,
sweat shops, hazardous working conditions, and abject poverty for the working class. Then the idiots who talk about social reform like it was some kind of disease will at last be happy.

Yes lets all go back to the pre-union days of sixty hour work weeks,
sweat shops, hazardous working conditions, and abject poverty for the working class. Then the idiots who talk about social reform like it was some kind of disease will at last be happy.

It seems to be that the only people who are not totaly going backwards economicly are union workers, granted many are just standing still economicly but far more others are going backwards.

I sometimes laugh so hard at these comments andthen I am sobered at how sad they realy are.

It seems to be that the only people who are not totaly going backwards economicly are union workers, granted many are just standing still economicly but far more others are going backwards.

I do not know were some of you get your information but at my jobsite sometimes a breakdown is thought to be mechanica lso they send a millwright he determins its electrical and they send an electrician who then sometimes find its a software issue and they send a tech.

It makes no sence at all to have someone not skilled in an area preform maintinance on something they are not qualified to do.

I have never heard of anyone refuseing to do a repair unless they did not have the skills.

But why listen to me just because I work union and see it everyday


I worked today at time and a half had a blast with my coworkers and had a great production run, everyone was happy.

The real world.

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Union Membership in U.S. Fell to a 70-Year Low Last Year
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: January 21, 2011


The number of American workers in unions declined sharply last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, with the percentage slipping to 11.9 percent, the lowest rate in more than 70 years.

The report found that the number of workers in unions fell by 612,000 last year to 14.7 million, an even larger decrease than the overall 417,000 decline in the total number of Americans working.

“It was a very tough year for unionized workers,” said John Schmitt, a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. “We’re seeing declines in the private sector, and we’re seeing declines in the public sector.”

The number of private sector workers in unions fell by 339,000, to 7.1 million, while the number of public sector union members fell by 273,000, to 7.6 million.

The percentage of private sector workers in unions fell to 6.9 percent, down from 7.2 percent, the lowest rate for private sector workers in more than a century, labor historians said.

In 2009, for the first time in American history, government employees accounted for more than half the nation’s union membership, but the percentage of government workers in unions fell to 36.2 percent last year, down from 37.4 percent the previous year.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that the overall unionization rate last year was down from 12.3 percent in 2009 and 20.1 percent in 1983, when there were 17.7 million union members. The peak unionization rate was 35 percent during the mid-1950s, after a surge in unionization during the Great Depression and after World War II.

Yes lets all go back to the pre-union days of sixty hour work weeks,
sweat shops, hazardous working conditions, and abject poverty for the working class. Then the idiots who talk about social reform like it was some kind of disease will at last be happy.

Worth repeating over and over

It's sad you missed the point.

The jobs are in China. To a large degree, the unions put them there.

Unions didn't put them there. Management did.

But don't worry, those jobs will be back when non union wages fall below that of the Chinese.

Then you'll be happily working like a serf and living on beans and rice.

Unions didn't put them there. Management did.

But don't worry, those jobs will be back when non union wages fall below that of the Chinese.

Then you'll be happily working like a serf and living on beans and rice.

It's sad you missed the point.

The jobs are in China. To a large degree, the unions put them there.

I tend to think it was corperate greed that put them their.

The one % was not content with makeing 40% more than the average worker and the average union worker was not going to take wage cuts so they could make even more.

In 2005, the average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, the second-highest level of this ratio in the 40 years for which there are data. In 2005, a CEO earned more in one workday (there are 260 in a year) than an average worker earned in 52 weeks.
In 1973 the average ceo made 27 times that of an average worker.
http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_snapshots_20060621/

You can cite corperate propaganda all day long I choose to stick to the facts.

I don't know any corporate propaganda. My sister, however, is shop steward of her union and no one blasts the inefficiency of the unions like she does. She constantly chews out her fellow union members for looking for excuses not to work. She says they all are overpaid and underworked.

But they are union and nobody can do anything about it.

I don't know any corporate propaganda. My sister, however, is shop steward of her union and no one blasts the inefficiency of the unions like she does. She constantly chews out her fellow union members for looking for excuses not to work. She says they all are overpaid and underworked.

But they are union and nobody can do anything about it.