Those people haven't seen nothing yet. Where you better look is over at Asia sweat shops that they will be competing with. Look at their lifestyle, their mud huts, ox drawn cart. Because corporations have shown us, they can go there, or if they stay, you will make the same wage the Asian does and like it.
I just see us headed in the wrong direction in America. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev made a prediction years back, "We will bury you from within." I do hope he is wrong.
good gawd, talk about FEAR MONGERING.
Well give us the good side of having your wages & benefits cut down to that of an Asian.
Asian people come here so that they will have unalienable rights acknowledged and protected and can aspire to whatever their work ethic, abilities, and imagination can achieve for them. And most are not union employees. And because of their work ethic, a poor Asian is usually pretty hard to find.
You're comparing basketballs to marbles here. If cities or states become so hopelessly bankrupt that they cannot keep the doors of public services open, THEN your beloved union employees might get busted down to Asian labor because there will be no money to pay them at all. They can sue but you can't get blood or even unlimited turnip juice out of a turnip forever. There is a finite supply and that is all there is.
We're not asking union employees to take a vow of poverty. They are being asked to see the handwriting on the wall, understand that they cannot continue to rake in salaries and benefits when there is no money to pay them, and thus they need to be willing to negotiate salaries and benefits that their employer is able to pay without breaking the bank.
It would be wonderful if we all could just demand what we think we need or deserve or want. But the rest of us have to live and work with economic realities our whole lives.
Union workers should be no different.