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Old 09-15-2023, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jparsoneau@aol.com View Post
So I grew up in a union house. When unions used to take care of their employees. Now the unions just seem to be bullies and push their weight around demanding monthly payments from their members regardless of how they feel.
And some of these people where do you get your numbers from? I don’t know but I’ve heard it multiple times they wanted 46% pay increase over four years. And they want to work 32 hours a week and get paid for 40 hours a week. who gets paid for things they don’t do?
Unions did a great job improving working conditions. When they prevented companies from either firing people for cause or require people to actually work and became unreasonable asking for higher wages whether or not the company could afford it they lost a lot of their benefit.