Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ronald Reagan was wrong about Unions
Unions may not be perfect, but the fact of the matter is that we are much better off with them than without them. The must be a counterbalance to corporate upper management. Had we kept the unions, real wages would not be going down as adjusted for inflation. Instead we railed against the unions. The PATCO strike was the nail in the coffin of the unions. Now they're coming back but it's slow going. A lot of it has to do with some of the rules the Labor Relations Board is forced to follow. Big business has made it almost impossible for workers to organize and employers are so short sighted that they don't raise wages even though it will mean more spending power. Henry Ford had it right. Pay your workers well enough so they can buy your product. Now employers pay their workers so little that they qualify for public assistance. Their is something wrong with the idea that a full time worker can't afford to buy food. We need unions. Alone we are weak and expendable. United we are stronger.
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Correct you are! Greed and selfishness are the reasons the American people turned against Unions. It's like this. One of the reasons people have SO many clothes today is because of the cheap stuff that comes from overseas, from countries like China. Corporations convinced Americans that Unions were the reason goods were so expensive. It's like when professional athletes get raises the owners tell fans that they have to raise the price of tickets. CRAP. If the OWNERS took a small pay cut they wouldn't need to raise ticket prices.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Unions, look at what is happening today with TV. If actors want too much money, the network will have their characters killed off, or even worse, cancel the show and put on a reality show. I have read that reality show "stars" make something close to $8,000 or $10,000 per episode. That's a LOT less than an actor who belongs to SAG makes per episode.