Union membership all time low, American worker productivity all time high

[Wyatt earp]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Automation and strong work ethic.

 

[sealybobo]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

 

[Wyatt earp]

Automation and strong work ethic.

Tell that to Franco and his ilk

It's what Reaganism does...wrecks the middle class and the country...

I wonder how productive the government could be if we got rid of public unions ?



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[gipper]

Most of the increase in income for many years now, has flown to the top 10%.

Let's see now...productivity way up, but incomes for 90% of Americans is stagnant. The elites love it.

Maybe unionization isn't so bad.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

I would work slower ...


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[Wilbur Right]

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

I would work slower ...

Facts are a terrible thing for you aren't they?

Union membership is down, wages for workers have been flat for years, productivity is up and the increased profits flow to the very wealthy.

And you think this is good. And I think you are stupid. Impasse.

 

[sealybobo]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

I would work slower ...


.

Scared to lose their job.

You'd be applying at Walmart.

 

[Wilbur Right]

I would work slower ...

And you would get fired for working slower.

 

[bullwinkle]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

So let us hear no more complaints about Unions or high wages that cripple our mega-corporations. Dry those tears, the goal of Republicans since Reagan to destroy Unions is now realized. Hallelujah! In the bad old days, I recall a visit from Kruschev. Seems that on an auto trip on an X-way from one stop to another, he passed an automobile factory in upstate NY and the parking lot was chock full of vehicles, and he asked who the cars and trucks belong to. He was surprised when told they belong to the workers, since in his country only the officials could afford vehicles.
Has anybody passed a manufacturing factory lately? Our corporations have won the war against wages and Union. Productive? Or intimidated?

 

[The VOR]

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

Because they are afraid that without any union representation they will get fired in a heartbeat.

I would work slower ...

And you'd be fired in a heartbeat.

 

[Auld Phart]

I would work slower ...

And you would get fired for working slower.

Not if you belong to a union.

 

[midcan5]

LOL American workers are a dumb breed of worker. (Full disclosure, I was Union for first part of career.) Americans support Japan, Korea, and Germany with their auto purchases supporting unions in three countries that have so called socialized medicine, and in the case of Germany free college. When Trump talks about Japan dumping cars I wonder is his audience awake? German union workers make twice our union workers, go figure.

The giant has awakened, the silent majority is silent no more...

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Of the 15 major automakers surveyed, Hyundai Motor Company can lay claim to having the worst ratio, with 1.15 vehicles recalled for every model sold since it introduced the Excel to U.S. buyers in 1986. Other brands found to have recalled more cars than they sold in the U.S. over the last 30 years (needless to say this represents a number of cars for which multiple campaigns were initiated) include Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and Volvo; Chrysler broke even, so to speak, with a one-to-one sales-to-recall ratio. (Scroll down for the full results.)" Automakers With The Lowest (And Highest) Recall Rates


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[Auld Phart]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

So let us hear no more complaints about Unions or high wages that cripple our mega-corporations. Dry those tears, the goal of Republicans since Reagan to destroy Unions is now realized. Hallelujah! In the bad old days, I recall a visit from Kruschev. Seems that on an auto trip on an X-way from one stop to another, he passed an automobile factory in upstate NY and the parking lot was chock full of vehicles, and he asked who the cars and trucks belong to. He was surprised when told they belong to the workers, since in his country only the officials could afford vehicles.
Has anybody passed a manufacturing factory lately? Our corporations have won the war against wages and Union. Productive? Or intimidated?

Has anybody passed a manufacturing factory lately?

Growing up, there were two manufacturing plants a mile or so from my house.

Westinghouse, and General Motors.

Westinghouse is now a Big Lots warehouse, and General Motors is a casino

 

[Wyatt earp]

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

Because they are afraid that without any union representation they will get fired in a heartbeat.

I would work slower ...

And you'd be fired in a heartbeat.

You don't know me.....

.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

It proves that Americans are producing more and more for less and less compensation.

 

[bullwinkle]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

Union membership went from 35% of our workforce to 9%. In that time wages have gone down. No coincidence

So let us hear no more complaints about Unions or high wages that cripple our mega-corporations. Dry those tears, the goal of Republicans since Reagan to destroy Unions is now realized. Hallelujah! In the bad old days, I recall a visit from Kruschev. Seems that on an auto trip on an X-way from one stop to another, he passed an automobile factory in upstate NY and the parking lot was chock full of vehicles, and he asked who the cars and trucks belong to. He was surprised when told they belong to the workers, since in his country only the officials could afford vehicles.
Has anybody passed a manufacturing factory lately? Our corporations have won the war against wages and Union. Productive? Or intimidated?

Has anybody passed a manufacturing factory lately?

Growing up, there were two manufacturing plants a mile or so from my house.

Westinghouse, and General Motors.

Westinghouse is now a Big Lots warehouse, and General Motors is a casino

Good Morning, will! Big Lots is China West. However, I remember when I worked in retail and import leathers from Italy and fashions from France were considered luxury. Now Made - USA is the luxury. Sometimes I think God must be laughing his butt off at how fickle we humans are.

 

[guno]

Coincidence?????

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463

Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.

The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.

One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.

U.S. Workers World's Most Productive

Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.

interesting unions on the decline and wages on the decline while productivity soars

 

[The VOR]

Why would any sane person work harder if their wages would go down?

Because they are afraid that without any union representation they will get fired in a heartbeat.

I would work slower ...

And you'd be fired in a heartbeat.

You don't know me.....

.

I don't even know what that reply is supposed to mean.

 

[Hutch Starskey]