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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
Last five years of my career I was the sole negotiated for my local. The one thing I leaned was if employers treated workers fairly unions would not exist. It's not only wages on the table, many times it's also the safety of the employees. I went against the 3 major networks, the Broadway League, the Major studios. You never sit across from a CEOs; you sit across from a group of hired guns who have a parameter they are locked to, and they secure their position by how low they can keep the cost. It doesn't matter if they are not offering a living wage, or they work their employees around the clock, they do what is best for themselves. I don't fault them, they have families and mouths to feed, but so do union members.
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That IMO maybe be true 80 plus years ago, but in today’s union you’re pricing yourselves out of the market and company just moved across southern borders or China with no repercussions, and CEO gets millions in bonus and stock option for eliminating high cost of labor in this country and gets near slave labor out of country and don’t have to deal with EPA.