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“Prosperity Through Lower Wages!”
Lot of money to be made off of low wages
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What Does the Supreme Court’s Union-Dues Ruling Mean for HR?
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court banned mandatory union fees in the public sector, HR professionals for certain government employers will need to update their payroll practices.www.shrm.org
"States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees," Justice Samuel Alito Jr. wrote for the majority in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, U.S., No. 16-1466.
NLRB Rules Nonunion Members Don't have to Pay Dues
But not for the workers.Lot of money to be made off of low wages
But not for the workers.
22 states have them and the Dems want to pass a Federal law to ban them. This would mean, if it passes, every worker in America would be forced to join a union in every shop which has one. Ya. the good ole dems don't like freedom of choice at all. I was in a union for 6 years, but I quit because the union kept giving my dues money to Bill Clinton, who I was vehemently opposed to. I wrote the union President about it and I never even got an answer.,
If an employer cannot remain in business without paying Spartan wages, he deserves to go out of businessLow wages are better than no wages for the workers.
If labor unions come into a joint and perform a "bust out" sending the employer into bankruptcy, they will be screwed.
You gotta love republicans and their “fuck the workers “ attitude.
Why not? The IRS serves as collection agency for medicare, social security, overdue child-care, state and local taxes,I just don't think the employers or the government should be acting as collection agents for Big Labor. Let the LCN associates do their own collections of agency fees and dues.
Why not? The IRS serves as collection agency for medicare, social security, overdue child-care, state and local taxes,
Well I thought unions were out to fuck me. It would not have been consensual nor conventional and it would have been painfulYou gotta love republicans and their “fuck the workers “ attitude.
Please elaborate
"Right to work" laws are designed to help corporations break unions. Framed as the "right to work" without being "forced" to join a union, what they do is enable employers to hire anti-union workers until the majority of their workers are non-union, and then decertify the union. From that point on, wages stagnate and benefits are cut.
The corporate owners long heard refrain was that they were off-shoring manufacturing because of the costs of union contracts. Without the legacy costs of the pensioned workers, or the environmental regulations of First World countries, the West basically off-loaded their heavily polluting equipment to Third World countries whose people didn't care about clean air or water, so much as eating and having something to eat.
In my father's day, the company he worked for offered a lifelong pension if he retired with 25 years of service at age 65, with survivor's benefits for his wife. Today, very few non-unionized companies or organizations offer pensions. Union membership in the USA plummeted in the 1980's when Ronald Reagan took on the flight controllers union.
In the rest of the First World, government has picked up the slack. taxing corporations to provide the health care and pensions that companies no longer provide. They provided massive retraining programs for workers displaced by off-shoring and technologies. In the USA, workers are on their own.
This is why your quality of life has deteriorated - because Republicans, since Reagan, have done nothing for working people to protect their jobs, and ensure they got a fair slice of the pie. They refused to tax corporations to provide the benefits that union membership used to ensure for working Americans - health care, pensions, and steady wage increases. Leaving all of these things to the "market economy".
As a result, the USA is the only first world country in the world without a decent minimum wage, or decent level of retirement income for their workers. If the health of a nation is the measure of your nation's success, you've just failed the test - spectacularly.
Who are unions to demand such special treatment?
Should employers be required to act as agents to collect for utility companies, mortgage holders and shylocks that their employers might owe money to as well?
You are asking a lot from employers.
In general, companies in RTW make products cheaper than companies in non-RTW states, basically because the labor costs are lower and they can then charge a lower price. Which helps the American consumer, right? How can anyone deny that? Wouldn't you rather have more choices, American-made or foreign? Progressive liberals piss and moan about the poor worker, like he's being victimized; but why shouldn't he have the right to decline to pay union dues to the fat cat union executives and donate to the Democratic Party?
Let me remind you. Everything you fear is already legally required of employers.Should employers be required to act as agents to collect for utility companies, mortgage holders and shylocks that their employers might owe money to as well?
You are asking a lot from employers.
22 states have them and the Dems want to pass a Federal law to ban them. This would mean, if it passes, every worker in America would be forced to join a union in every shop which has one. Ya. the good ole dems don't like freedom of choice at all. I was in a union for 6 years, but I quit because the union kept giving my dues money to Bill Clinton, who I was vehemently opposed to. I wrote the union President about it and I never even got an answer.,
Being happy that a union shop moved overseas does not explain at all how they were half of the cause.Are you too young to remember the 90s-00s Ypu must be if you have to ask that question. Republicans turned backflips of joy every time a union shop closed up and went offshore. They preached the virtues of the lousy unstable service based economy we ended up with. The very conservative US chamber of commerce even held seminars to guide companies through offshoring jobs. Now that wages have been flat for decades and real benefits are becoming a thing of the past I ask again, was breaking the unions worth it?