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Why We Need Unions
If you've ever asked for a raise at work, you should understand the concept of leverage: to the extent that your employer needs you, you have it, and you're able to get something (increased wages) for it; to the extent that your employer considers you replaceable, you lack it, and therefore have no way to improve your own position. In the retail and service industries, employees lack leverage almost by definition. Anyone who makes trouble can simply be tossed out and replaced. Unions give those employees leverage. That leverage is a means to a fair wage. Not an outrageous, outsized wage; a fair wage. Any union that bankrupts the parent company is a failure, because all the union members end up unemployed. It is in the interest of unions to achieve the best possible conditions for workers that still allow the company to flourish. A union does not throw off the balance of power in the workplacelack of a union does.
Large corporations are machines designed to make money for shareholders. They do it well. To expect them to do anything but minimize wages and maximize profit is to misunderstand their nature. The most basic sense of decency and respect for human rights dictates that there must be some mechanism by which the workersthe humanscan assert their interests. Otherwise they will be crushed by the machine. It's all very plain to see.
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him.
Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it.
They all tried, but in vain.
Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease.
Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."
Take two posts and make one a bundle of sticks and the other one stick. Which do you think will be strongest?
So create a false dichotomy as a cogent argument!....Race to ignorance!Is this some type of parable trying to explain why we should enjoy giving our taxes to state employees who retire early while we keep on slaving away?
So make everyone slave away is the answer! Race to the bottom!
Pretty well, for awhile...The American leftists just loved the little turd.worked out well for him, didn't it?
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.There once was a grasshopper who tried to take a stick out of the eye of a man who had no shoes--------
There once was a grasshopper who tried to take a stick out of the eye of a man who had no shoes--------
Read it and weep, dude.Pretty well, for awhile...The American leftists just loved the little turd.worked out well for him, didn't it?
please
American Progressives studied at German universities, Schivelbusch writes, and “came to appreciate the Hegelian theory of a strong state and Prussian militarism as the most efficient way of organizing modern societies that could no longer be ruled by anarchic liberal principles.” The pragmatist philosopher William James’ influential 1910 essay “The Moral Equivalent of War” stressed the importance of order, discipline, and planning.
Why We Need Unions
If you've ever asked for a raise at work, you should understand the concept of leverage: to the extent that your employer needs you, you have it, and you're able to get something (increased wages) for it; to the extent that your employer considers you replaceable, you lack it, and therefore have no way to improve your own position. In the retail and service industries, employees lack leverage almost by definition. Anyone who makes trouble can simply be tossed out and replaced. Unions give those employees leverage. That leverage is a means to a fair wage. Not an outrageous, outsized wage; a fair wage. Any union that bankrupts the parent company is a failure, because all the union members end up unemployed. It is in the interest of unions to achieve the best possible conditions for workers that still allow the company to flourish. A union does not throw off the balance of power in the workplacelack of a union does.
Large corporations are machines designed to make money for shareholders. They do it well. To expect them to do anything but minimize wages and maximize profit is to misunderstand their nature. The most basic sense of decency and respect for human rights dictates that there must be some mechanism by which the workersthe humanscan assert their interests. Otherwise they will be crushed by the machine. It's all very plain to see.
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him.
Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it.
They all tried, but in vain.
Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease.
Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."
Take two posts and make one a bundle of sticks and the other one stick. Which do you think will be strongest?
The problem is unions do get rediculous wages to a point and then they become useless, but the main issue is most of those jobs are unskilled, entry level jobs and being a retail clerk does not warrant a good income, sorry, it's for teenagers and part time, not a "real" job by any means.
You act as though people need unions as they are ... not as they were. That's the thing you don't understand, the middle.
Why dont you explain it then?
Way to not answer the questions, buttpipe.
So create a false dichotomy as a cogent argument!....Race to ignorance!Is this some type of parable trying to explain why we should enjoy giving our taxes to state employees who retire early while we keep on slaving away?
So make everyone slave away is the answer! Race to the bottom!
You act as though people need unions as they are ... not as they were. That's the thing you don't understand, the middle.
Why dont you explain it then?
Unions have gone from trying to get what is fair pay and benefits and safe working conditions to just trying to get all they can while doing as little as possible. The unions of 40, 50, 60,70 years served a good purpose I'm not sure the unions of Today really do.
There is a simple reason why all those huge employers of retail and service workersTarget, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Whole Foods, and countless othersare so emphatically anti-union: fear. These companies know that unions represent a sort of power for their workers that their workers will otherwise never have. That power translates to better working conditions and higher wages. That, in turn, eats into a company's profits, as all expenses do. For some companies, this is merely a nuisance, a potential hit to the stock price. For otherslike Wal-Mart, which has built the world's largest retail chain by squeezing every last cent out of its costsit is a potential existential threat.
Why We Need Unions
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him.
Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it.
They all tried, but in vain.
Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease.
Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."
Take two posts and make one a bundle of sticks and the other one stick. Which do you think will be strongest?
The problem is unions do get rediculous wages to a point and then they become useless, but the main issue is most of those jobs are unskilled, entry level jobs and being a retail clerk does not warrant a good income, sorry, it's for teenagers and part time, not a "real" job by any means.
The issues isnt whether or not those are "real" jobs, they are labor and if you are in a labor position there will always be someone willing to work for less. Especially if the options are limited. There can be no good that comes from Corporations (groups) to have the only leverage and bargaining power. From the article "The most basic sense of decency and respect for human rights dictates that there must be some mechanism by which the workersthe humanscan assert their interests."
If you believe companies will treat everyone great because of some imaginary public backlash you dont understand how much Americans love cheap stuff.
I'm blaming you for being a simpleton...Which you are.So create a false dichotomy as a cogent argument!....Race to ignorance!So make everyone slave away is the answer! Race to the bottom!
You're going to blame me for him using the term "slaving away"?
If this ^^^ moron had any thought of its own, perhaps it wouldn't post strawmen.
Read it and weep, dude.Pretty well, for awhile...The American leftists just loved the little turd.
please
American Progressives studied at German universities, Schivelbusch writes, and came to appreciate the Hegelian theory of a strong state and Prussian militarism as the most efficient way of organizing modern societies that could no longer be ruled by anarchic liberal principles. The pragmatist philosopher William James influential 1910 essay The Moral Equivalent of War stressed the importance of order, discipline, and planning.
Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt - Reason.com
China and India just love American unions.You act as though people need unions as they are ... not as they were. That's the thing you don't understand, the middle.
Why dont you explain it then?
Unions have gone from trying to get what is fair pay and benefits and safe working conditions to just trying to get all they can while doing as little as possible. The unions of 40, 50, 60,70 years served a good purpose I'm not sure the unions of Today really do.
