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Originally Posted by graciegirl
You are right. So many buy the promises and lose the ability to feed their family. Something is better than nothing.
but you will never convince a die hard person who thinks the unions are always right. There are a lot of crooked people in the unions too.
In hard times compromises must be made. The high ups in the unions make a ton of money too. No group is all right or all wrong.
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Exactly spot on. I have seen it on both ends. Management does have some ridiculous money increases, salaries, and ineptness in running a business. The "mommy or daddy boy/girl behind the scenes in management, good ole boys, and suck ups.). But I can also tell you from first hand experiences with unions that their leadership constantly berated their membership behind their backs, laughed at their requests, made obnoxious monies, huge stipends (from union paid cars such as a corvette, monthly clothes allowances and expense reports out of this world, and salaries not open or "divulged totally" to members. They don't want to give up those perks either since they are "entitled" to them. But they were elected like politicians and look what we have there!
The unions had there place years ago when management abused workers. In recent times though, it got to a point that they won many concessions and just looked for more so they could justify their existence to the contingency. That to hurt businesses. salaried and union employees/retirees both have taken large losses recently. Unfortunately due to what is talked about and the times.
I am not taking either sides but saddened by the loss of more workers. No one wins when a company goes under due mismanagement and union stubbornness. Just more unemployment and hard times for families.