Is the people who are opposed to the minimum wage increase the same as anti-union people to a degree?

Question

I mean lets face it...bringing the margin of pay up for the less paid only brings the 6-7 dollar an hour employees wage up and so forth...why because the employer wants to attract more employees and they can't do that at minimum wage rates so they bring there wages up.

Kinda like anti-union people...they complain about Unions and there pay but they don't look at it like they are really riding the coat-tails of those union workers...and in some cases there fellow workers. Because if it was not for Unions they would not be recieving the pay they are getting....study the beginning of Unions and what the employers paid the employees then to what it is now.

Now don't confuse this as a pro-union vs a anti-union post because it isn't....I personally think they have the advantages and disadvantages. I am just saying everyone wants to bash the raise but they do not look at what it does for them.

Lets face it there is a comparison...what do you think?

Answer 1

Yes !
Union means simply a group of people with the ability to analyze information about the company they work for . With careful analysis of information they can determine what a fair amount of benefits should be . They also have the power to keep others from taking jobs that they already are trained and employed at but at unacceptable wages and benefits by holding a line at the entrance that no one should cross .
Corporations call this blackmail and claim that the employees want to much .Still they manage to pay multi million dollar salaries to executives 6 figure incomes middle management and less then 60,000 a year to most workers who provide the product they sell .
The tradition of management is one of nepotism and cronyism . Should my long time friend have a prosperous business then in the event I should need employment surely he would create a position for me within his organization and thus was born the useless ruling class . Attractive women who married these privileged few also had family and brothers that needed or wanted better pay .The ordinary oversight of operations schedules and indeed the accounting and accounts payable as well as receivable transfered to the hands of relatives trusted to continue the good work and profit of the business .It is this same elitist group of white Christians that today dominate the middle and upper management ranks at every corporation in America . They feel privileged and deserving of outrageous pay and benefits not provided to the true labor force that produces goods and services .
It is this profit taking from the workers that Union members seek to remedy with fair pay and benefits .
They do not want to run the company out of business or force them to raise the price of goods but rather force the fair distribution of wealth from the profits of their labor .

Answer 2

When the minimum wage goes up the unions make more money through union dues.

Of course most of the people who benefit from a minimum wage hike work for non-union small businesses. The problem is when a hike goes into place some of them will lose their jobs because a minimum wage hike has an immediate bad impact on small business.

Ohhh so all the teenagers living in middle class homes working for minimum wage will get a raise? Great with the increase cost of living index those of us who are salaried employees in effect had our wages dropped.

Man but don't the dems LOVE class warfare.

Answer 3

No.

I happen to be both against manditory minimum wage and also against closed shop unions; however, for different reasons, only some of which overlap, and yours are not among them.

Raising minimum wage takes the money from the pockets of the middle class, while accomplishing no appreciable difference in the standard of living of the poor, due to the rise in the cost of goods and services.

Answer 4

I have worked for minimum wage in my teenage years, and in college joined a construction worker's union (I had to) and now oppose both the minimum wage and unions. Its a simple economic theory that the market and demand should determine wages, and I adhere to this philosophy

Answer 5

I agree except that the minimum wage should be a living wage, Low paying employers shouldn't be able to susidize their employees with government programs, let them give up one of their vacation homes and pay their share

Answer 6

The unions have done a lot in this regards, you are right!