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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   So, Unions are something bad? Like, you prefer it if there are no Unions? So that workers have to labor for pennies a day, 80 hours a week and die at 40? Beautiful world that this comic promotes, right out of Dickens…
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   Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   mortified-by-conservative-thinking, so you are claiming that non-union business’s pay their people pennies on the dollar that unions get? Non-union workers die at 40? If people don’t get their disposable income stolen by unions the world will suddenly end? Tell us all of which world your comments exist.
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   tranquil-d said, 7 months ago

   and, what?, big business is sweet, innocent dorothy? because certainly large businesses only have the workers’ best interests in mind when considering wages, hours, and safety – never profits, and executive compensation packages and golden parachutes.
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   Darren Blair said, 7 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Nobody’s saying that all unions are bad.
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   Rather, individual unions are, through a variety of factors, causing more harm than good.
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   For example, a number of individual education unions have put “protecting their employees” over “reforms”. Because of this, incompetent teachers and teachers who are not up to date are allowed to remain in their positions because the union doesn’t want to admit they aren’t suitable for the job. So long as these teachers remain in their jobs, kids won’t be learning what they need to learn and schools will continue to fail.
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   Robert Landers said, 7 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   The trend of more working hours for less compensation has been going on since the mid 1970’s. It is not a new thing since President Obama’s election. Even with your relative lack of American historical knowledge, you ought to know that.

   Besides, it is even modern unions that have tried (unfortunately with relatively little success against big business) to reverse, or even slow this trend.

   It IS this (and not the policies of ANY particular president) that has been steadily pushing the middle class into the working poor!!
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   Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

   Unions have done much since their inception to earn the disregard of the general public, especially those who do not understand how and why the need for unions began. The good unions do far outweighs the bad, but like any political organization giving too much power to too few people, it is easily swayed from its purpose. Like the Congress it lobbys and donates to as do so many others.
   The CEOs of several companies have taken Romney’s on tape advice to warn their employees their jobs are at risk if Obama is elected.
   At least unions can’t do that.
   We are also creating a prison labor force that works cheaper than people do in China that is competing with Americans looking for a living wage.
   Unions are trying to stop that too. Creating an industry based on keeping Americans incarcerated is evil.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   lonecat said, 7 months ago

   My grandfather died because there was no union in the mine where he worked.
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   Fourcrows said, 7 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Howie, that would be proof that we need MORE union power. People to stand up to the corporations who are laying off workers for the sole purpose of increasing executive pay (every million in bonus money is equivalent to 20 50k jobs). There is a lawsuit against Rite-Aid now because once an employee accepted the assistant manager salary position, they were subjected to unlimited hours of the same menial work as before, and the hourly rate essentially became lower than a base employee.
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   NeoconMan said, 7 months ago

   Yes, unions are made up of people: dumb, poor, ignorant workers. They must NEVER be allowed to gain political power or to question the wisdom of society’s job creators. That can only lead to socialism. Workers must learn their place.
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    DrCanuck said, 7 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, “Why are so many more on foodstamps now than ever before, and the middle class dwindling and welfare class growing.”

    
    Because Bush destroyed the economy and Obama is helping out the victims.
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    lookinside said, 7 months ago

    Unions are good for the worker. In my 30 years as a Union worker, I brought nearly a hundred skilled non Union workers into my Union. Many argued that $2000 annual dues were too high, until I told them what I earned, annually. Then it seemed a pittance.
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    skipcarlsen said, 7 months ago

    @tranquil-d

    Actually good jobs are in short supply and wages are actually falling in relation to inflation AND IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT!
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    Quipss said, 7 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Now under free market premises the plausible reasoning for this is that there are other companies your skilled employees can transfer into, once the market is monopolized you can do whatever you want.

    Chinese workers are banned from elected unions

    Union shredding occurs in Thailand, India

    And to a large degree unionized workers have seen their wages grow with inflation whereas non unionized workers saw stagnation in wages
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    Quipss said, 7 months ago

    @Darren Blair

    Good point, Unions in some companies can prove a valuable asset where in others a heavy liability. Optimally they can work against arbitrary procedures that frustrate employees and thus increase efficiency, work to improve safety as to reduce workers compensation and increase productivity and to negotiate wages to a reasonable level based on profits.
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    Unfortunately as with that said you do see other unions where the goal is to antagonize the managers and prevent mobility.
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    indieme said, 7 months ago

    When did Dorothy become a corporation, my friend?
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