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Originally Posted by dewilson58
The latest strike is a great example of the lack of value.
Yes they wanted wages but they want job security thru the lack of automation.
That's nuts.
Of all these striking ports, "represented" by the union........none of them are in the Top 50 efficient ports in the world.
What's that light in the tunnel??
Pretty sad the USA labor is not a leader, it's not even close.
The cost of labor protectionism.
The vast majority of people don't want or need union representation.
Don't understand people in unions.
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I’ve been a union member since 1986. I paid 1% of my salary in union dues. My union is responsible for getting me the investment options that allowed me to retire comfortably and move here. I only needed union representative help once, but it was there when I needed it, and it helped me get treated fairly.
If you read scholarly books about the history of labor unions, you can see that they came about because so many company owners treated workers as little better than slaves. They didn’t care if their workers were in poverty. Collective bargaining is responsible for generations of poor workers leaving poverty behind, getting better housing, sending their kids to college.
A lot of us in The Villages are here because labor unions fought to get us or our parents or grandparents health care benefits and pension benefits and higher wages. If not for unions, the many thousands of us who are here because we have pensions or were able to invest part of our salaries wouldn’t be here. We’d be trying to scrape by on Social Security.
Lots of factory workers from past generations saw their jobs disappear—from the mills of New England and Pennsylvania to North Carolina and Georgia, but then off to China and Mexico and other places. Union membership didn’t stop that, but it helped forestall it for a few years and get better treatment. Sometimes, though, the union managed to keep the factories running.