Yes those things can suck man, but is force really the way to fight it?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > > Here's how that plays out, Cam. > > Union Worker X makes $40K a year. > Company hires worker Y and says, I'll pay you $42K a year if you don't join > the union. > Worker Y realizes that they'd be bringing home more money, so they don't > join the union. > Company offers to pay Worker X $42K a year if he leaves the union. > Worker X leaves the union to make $42K. > Union gets dissolved because too many people left. > Company drops the pay rate of both Worker X and Y to 38K a year because of > "restructuring" or some such and can do so with no repercussions because > they don't have to face collective bargaining. > Company now gets to go happily along paying less because they broke the > union and current law makes it significantly difficult to start a new > union. > > It's the same fundamental strategy that Walmart has used successfully to > expand. They go into a rural area, take a loss on a number of basic items > for a year or two and force their smaller competition out of business > because the smaller guys can't absorb a loss like that. Then, lacking > competition, they are able to gradually bring prices up and make back what > they lost and more and the barrier to entry for potential competitors is > high, helping Walmart lock in that market. > > It's a great corporate strategy, no doubt. But it sucks for workers and > consumers. > > Cheers, > Judah > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > So you're cool with being paid much less than your peers etc. > > > > > > > If it legitimately gave me some benefit, I would choose to pay the dues. > > > > I guess it's possible that you are feel blue collar workers are just to > > stupid to understand wether or not it helps them to be in a union. If it > so > > clearly gets them more money, then I wouldn't think voluntary membership > > would be such a huge challenge. > > > > -Cameron > > > > .... > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359042 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
