[DeTomaso] unions? (was: Re: Something to shoot for (NPC))

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

I really admire the CEO of Quantas wbo shut down the whole airline this
week because the unions were bleeding it dry.

I really feel for the NBA owners, but they caused this to happen by
overpaying the players to start with. Personally, the NBA can die for all I
care.

Unions had a time in history, but the ideals were polluted by politics and
the mob.  Anytime massive sums of money are involved it creates an
opportunity for the degradation of morals and honor.

Children shouldn't work in sweat shops, workplaces should be safe to avoid
disasters like the Triangle Shirt factory fire, Miners shouldn't breathe
coal dust, unions helped change these things before government agencies
like OSHA existed.

They served a purpose that should never be forgotten.

Michael Shortt
On Oct 30, 2011 6:01 PM, "doug sedon" <sedond at yahoo.com> wrote:

> it is not the unions that are causing the problem w/companies' greed and
> their going off-shore.  what is wrong w/the idea that an honest working
> class blue collar worker can support a family on a decent wage?  unions
> made this possible.  the problem we are having is that the federal
> government deregulation has allowed companies to move offshore, cutting
> their costs substantially, while keeping the prices of the products the
> same.  great for the rich stockholders and ceo's, screw everyone else.  if
> these companies were regulated so as to not be able to reap the profits of
> slave-wage-rate labor, no off-shore safety/enwironmental regulation, etc.;
> then there would not have been such a huge exodus of american manufacturing
> to third-world countries.
>
> interesting article, tracking the fate of america's middle class, and its
> unions:
>
> http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/decline-in-unions-a-leading-factor-in-income-inequality/
>
> regarding ceo's being overpaid, i support, where possible, buying from
> non-american companies, who use american labor.  non-american companies
> typically pay their ceo's ~30 times what their average workers earn;
> w/american companies this figure is more like 300 times the salary of the
> average worker.  here's a guide for wehicles and where they're made.
> notice many foreign auto companies have "off-shored" a lot of the work to
> america.  but at least here, there are reasonable safety/enwironmental
> standards, etc., and the workers are paid more than subsistence wages...
>
>
> http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/content/db/b-db-autos.shtml
>
> ymmv,
>
> doug s.,
> #2602
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