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What A Non Union Company Did To My Sister And Hundreds Of Others.
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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1121982" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>The bulk of union decline is directly related to the Republican revolution in this country; union-busting legislation & Republican-appointed, non-labor friendly judges have engineered the erosion. Amazingly, despite the fact that most blue collar (and many middle class white collar) workers' compensation package has shrunk alongside soaring corporate profits/worker productivity, corporate America has convinced today's workers that unions aren't in their best interest. I've seen the Walmart propaganda video that all employees watch - it's completely untrue ('unions promise that they'll increase your compensation, but all they'll do is steal your dues money ... if Walmart could afford to pay its employees more, it would, be we operate on such thin margins that unions' outrageous demands would force us to close our doors') but people buy into it.</p><p></p><p>As far as socialism... most of the building blocks of your life -- your public education, your health insurance, the roads you travel on, the union you belong to, etc. -- are products of socialism. The problem with a pure capitalist society is that people are able to utilize their wealth & power to dominate society. We see that to some extent here... most of our politicians, Republicans & Democrats alike, are 'bought' by corporations and primarily represent those interests. Ultimately, Wall Street is running America.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1121982, member: 43436"] The bulk of union decline is directly related to the Republican revolution in this country; union-busting legislation & Republican-appointed, non-labor friendly judges have engineered the erosion. Amazingly, despite the fact that most blue collar (and many middle class white collar) workers' compensation package has shrunk alongside soaring corporate profits/worker productivity, corporate America has convinced today's workers that unions aren't in their best interest. I've seen the Walmart propaganda video that all employees watch - it's completely untrue ('unions promise that they'll increase your compensation, but all they'll do is steal your dues money ... if Walmart could afford to pay its employees more, it would, be we operate on such thin margins that unions' outrageous demands would force us to close our doors') but people buy into it. As far as socialism... most of the building blocks of your life -- your public education, your health insurance, the roads you travel on, the union you belong to, etc. -- are products of socialism. The problem with a pure capitalist society is that people are able to utilize their wealth & power to dominate society. We see that to some extent here... most of our politicians, Republicans & Democrats alike, are 'bought' by corporations and primarily represent those interests. Ultimately, Wall Street is running America. [/QUOTE]
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