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Originally Posted by Craig
I understand the argument, but I'm still not a big fan of professional unions. We are talking about people who should have enough knowledge to change jobs, careers, or locations if necessary.
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Ahhhh, yes. Clearly you have never been a teacher or had a spouse that is a teacher.
In a school corp there is no profit motive so if there were no union the administration could make assignments on whim. This means folks would get their jobs in many cases because they were related to someone or played sports with the boss.
Unions are necessary when the workers say they are. We have laws now which make it possible to have unions if the workers vote for them.
In Lafayette we have a Subaru plant which is non union. The company takes care of the workers and provides all the benefits and so forth as if there were a union. Do you think they would do that if there were not union plants around? No.
Same with our Caterpillar plant. Great pay, great bennies. They have many union plants IE in Peoria, where the union essentially sets the pay scale for the non union plant here. Do you think the local plant would pay $34/ hr if the union plant in Peoria was paying $25? no.
The local workers benefit from the sweat and blood of their union brothers.
If you see a bumper sticker which says "unions, the people who brought you the weekend"...believe it.
People gave their lives for the cause to obtain the rights to form unions in the thirties here. The big industries fought it tooth and nail.
Safety regulations in coal mines? Unions fought for them. before the mines were union they were hell holes to work in....as they no doubt are now in China and other places.