So Company A comes into Happytown, USA and sets up shop. Their prices are so low that the small businesses in town close down because they can't compete. Now everyone in Happytown works at Company A and gets paid what Company A tells them they can be paid - minimum wage. So the people who have been living in Happytown for 3 generations either have to move to another town, create a new business that doesn't compete with Company A (which is hard to do), or convince Company A to pay more. Company A says "Screw you, I can get 100 people just like you when you quit". So Person 1 comes along and unionizes the workers at Company A. Now the union says to Company A "You can't replace us, now we're a commodity that you can't get so cheaply. Pay us more." So Company A pays more and more until it reaches a point where it's better to just find new workers. That's supply and demand. That right to decide where to work, whether singly or in groups, is a fundamental right to happiness. IMHO.
- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jillian Koskie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Whos been walking to work past 2 days? > You're entirely right... but that isn't really 'the right to strike' in my > view. > > As I see it: > > 'Company A' is prepared to pay 'X' dollars for 'Person A' to drive a bus. > > 'Person A' is not prepared to drive the bus for 'X' dollars... 'Person A' > has every right to leave the bus driving biz and move along to doing > whatever else it is he'd rather do. > > Hire 'Person B', who is prepared to do so, and have him drive the bus for > 'X' dollars. > > *** > > This all assumes that 'Company A' follows reasonable government outlined > standards for employment, such as safe working conditions, a minimum wage > of 'whatever your minimum wage is', etc. > > *** > > Where people have a problem is in this scenario: > > 'Person A' thinks it is unfair that he hs to drive a bus for 'X' dollars. > > Knowing that buses are an essential service, 'Person A' just stops driving > his bus. > > 'Person A' gets to bully 'Company A' into giving him more money to drive > the bus because if 'Company A' fires him, there will be consequences. > > *** > > In modern times... 'right to strike' means the 'right to bully'. > >>I think right to strike is fundamental. >> >>A worker/employee transaction is nothing more than a basic supply/demand >>relationship. If you don't want to pay X dollars for the good and/or >>service, you don't get it. When there are a ton of workers competing for >>the same job, wages go down. When there aren't any workers for a job, the >>wages go up. The company will not pay you one red cent more than they >>think >>you're worth. What if you know you're worth more? Either find a >>different >>job, or force the company to pay you what you think you're worth. What if >>you can't force them to pay you more? You leave. That's it. It's very >>simple, no one entity controls all of the power, and disallowing the right >>to strike gives all authority to the company. Think about Walmart >>employees. Whether or not you think their jobs are menial, somebody needs >>to do them, and that people must to be paid. If it's so easy to replace >>these people, then they should be fired and replaced immediately. If not, >>then you pay more. I think you get the picture here. >> >>- Matt >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jillian Koskie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> >>Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:12 AM >>Subject: Re: Whos been walking to work past 2 days? >> >> >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:189017 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
