Originally Posted by
FiReSTaRT
That is true.. Unfortunately, organized labor is under constant attack these days... If a union member has a smoke while on a mandated break, it becomes a scandal... If a company promises bonuses to workers if they meet their quotas and then lays off the staff just as they're about to meet them so the work piles up and bonuses don't materialize, it's business as usual. Unions are considered "unnecessary" and "evil" because they are the slowest to fall behind the curve, which means that typically, a union member makes more than a non-unionized worker.
However, that's just one of the symptoms of the overall problem. The entire planet is working on making a small group of very powerful people even more powerful and very few people see a problem with that. There are better things we can direct our efforts at.
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