I keep reading about the very high ups in companies getting 30% wage increases and yet workers and the country suffer as jobs and factories are sent overseas. When China has all the manufacturing in their country how will we be able to produce war materials in case of a conflict like ww2. Think about it people...burger flipping and paper pushing won't cut it.
2006-10-09 06:59:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Quit lying drone ridgely!
2006-10-09 07:24:50 · update #1
You bring up a very important point . It's true unions have lost a large majority of the strength they once held in this country. I think it's largely due to corporate political donations so the politicians now side with the corporations while just speaking to pacify the union memberships . President Reagan had a large part in the downfall of our unions I believe . We can no longer trust politicians to side with the average Joe union member when most of their contributions come from major business . That is leading to the eventual downfall of unions in America. I for one am certainly not comfortable with sub contracting our industrial might out to another country .
2006-10-09 07:16:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately people only trained for Burger flipping are in trouble. Not all jobs are going to China. Many jobs are done by robots. Like the auto manufactures. These jobs are just that jobs. They are not careers. They do not require innovative thinking.
The good news is that if you are this kind of person you can always be a plumber. It's hard work but the pay is amazing. These guys live with the doctors and Lawyers.
Bottom line is if you serve the masses you will eat with the rich if you serve the rich you will eat with the masses.
People who do mindless jobs will never get anywhere. They work for wages. You need to make your money work for you.
That does not mean jump into the stock market. Most people don't know what they are doing in the market and pay people who know almost nothing to loose their money. You have to use your brain.
I knew a guy who mowed lawns. He got a few guys working for him and bought a few mowers. He built his little busines. But you know what he did next? He discovered there were houses that needed mowing and no one lived there. After doing some research he found they were REO propertys. Bank owned Forclosed propertys. He got a loan from the bank bought them fixed them up and did the landscaping and sold them. Some he rented out. He wound up eventualy owning many properties and becoming a real estate millionare. He came from Mexico and with hard work and ingenuity he made himself into a wealthy man. He had little education. He was a legal imigrant.
So while many sit crying boo hoo hoo because they are lazy good for nothings, others who are inovative are capitalizing on opportunitys they miss.
Remember a 30% increase on a whole lot is a whole lot. A 30% increase on 10 bucks is 3 dollars.
2006-10-09 07:19:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who is our country's largest employer? Wal-Mart Did you know that they could pay their worker's full benefits package and everyone of their employees twenty dollars or more an hour and still make a profit. Still live their most opulent lifestyles. Here's there latest business plan---put caps on wages for 25 to 40% of its part-time workforce. Considering their profit margins--what factor other than greed is the motivation behind such business practices? Don't even try to organize a union with them. They'd rather close the store down than let that happen--they have already. Try and find a product that is either union made or Made in America there--not gonna happen. The unfair trade laws we have with China are killing our manufacturing base on all fronts. Look at Meijer's--they just opened a store in my neighborhood and the only employee's that are full-time are management. They have a union, but it's just a paper lion with a status quo agenda and no real employee enpowerment. The formation of unions amongst all our industries is one of the best things that can happen to get the ball rolling in favor of change. Their is so much anti-union legislation created by the republican party that our unions are shrinking little by little. Vote Dems in Nov.!!
2006-10-09 07:27:36 · answer #3 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Employer greed is at an all time high,CEO - pay on average in America is 500 times the average workers wage. No other industrial nation is this out of whack. The economy is good if you are lucky to be one of the top 10%, People want to blame unions. Unions fight everyday to keep jobs here. Companies are running overseas so they can turn that 500 percent to 1000. What is going on in china is a joke. Nothing but a bunch of very rich companies looking to take advantage of a nation of oppressed people. lining their pockets while turning their backs on the American worker that has provided the labor to make them so powerful. Sad? Workers need unions as much today as they did in the past.
2006-10-09 07:21:37 · answer #4 · answered by Go Union 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The world has changed quite a bit since world war II. Two words: Nuclear weapons. Armed conflict is no longer an option for a dictator who would dominate the world. It's all about economics now. Who can produce the cheapest and who has the means to consume what is produced. I agree with you it certainly cheapens the idea of humanity, but armed conflict is just not in the cards anymore.
If a conflict the magnitude of world war II were to happen again, there could be no winners. It's simply game over.
2006-10-09 07:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Employer greed has nothing to do with a UAW worker siting at home sucking down 80% of his normal wage to play video games when they are laid off for 3-4 months out of every year.
That sir is union greed causing our products to be overpriced on the global market. This is why the US automakers are nearly bankrupt.
2006-10-09 07:09:30 · answer #6 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Employer greed is not dead. However in a free market economy, the supply and demand of workers available makes unions unnecessary.
If an employer isn't paying the market wage for type of labor, then they won't be able to find that labor, because that labor will go work somewhere else.
Just like every other commodity, labor works just fine when subject to the laws of supply and demand.
Unions were necessary when employers were able to band together for the purposes of lowering wages. That ability was removed by anti-trust legislation decades ago, and has obsoleted that actual reason to have unions.
2006-10-09 07:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The operative word in your question of course is GREED. The reason the Labor Unions have become irrelevant in our present economy is by virtue of their own greed. Greed for power, kick-backs, nepotism, and slush funds have compromised any ability they ever may have had to keep the "robber barons" of corporate America in check. The only force that has the power to curb exploding CEO compensation packages is that of shareholders. As long as the quarterly profit/share price margin = bonus equation continues to rule our boardrooms, you can continue to expect Laotians, Cambodians, and Hondurans etc. to get our jobs since they will do the same work for 75 cents a day.
2006-10-09 07:13:37 · answer #8 · answered by john c 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We already can't make the steel for many military ships, or machine the huge parts necessary to build them. But at the same time we protect sugar mega-farmers from foreign competition because sugar is a vital war-time product. But - the largest sugar corp in the united states isn't even owned by americans. Go figure.
2006-10-09 07:08:07 · answer #9 · answered by notme 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Union a thing of the past only if workers are satisfied for them to fade away and never rise again. It's a workers institution and if not supported, then workers kill it.
2006-10-09 07:10:55 · answer #10 · answered by longroad 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋