HsiaoChu
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Feb 26, 2010
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When times are good, employers are nice to employees, because they can. But over the 30 years, employers have done a great PR job in making employees feel that time will always be great and that employers will always be nice, and thus they don't need unions. As such Union membership has declined. People have developed the managment's view of Unions, and have figured that Unions are a waste and who needs them, which is exactly the view that managment has wanted to workers to have.
As times have turned bad, people don't really know what to do, but they aren't turning to Union collective bargaining because they have been brainwashed by management to believe that Unions are bad. The pendulum will swing. But in bad economic times, Unions continue to protect their workers. And now the non-unionized are unhappy. Funny how they were not before.
People should read the story of how unions formed and what they do. In education, there are some places with really strong unions and some places without. The managment brainwashing is so successful that people complain that Educator Unions don't care about children as if that is some kind of indictment. Of course, Educator Unions don't care about children, any more than Auto worker unions want to make better cars, or UPS unions want to make shipping faster.
The bottom line, despite widespread management brainwashing, is that Unions work to protect their workers from abuse by management, easy firing for no real reason, and work to increase or at least hold the line on salaries and benefits including retirement options.
It will turn back again, but people need to wake up to management brainwashing.
IMnotsohumbleopinionofcourse. And of course, you may be part of management or you may have been brainwashed at a very early age.
HS
As times have turned bad, people don't really know what to do, but they aren't turning to Union collective bargaining because they have been brainwashed by management to believe that Unions are bad. The pendulum will swing. But in bad economic times, Unions continue to protect their workers. And now the non-unionized are unhappy. Funny how they were not before.
People should read the story of how unions formed and what they do. In education, there are some places with really strong unions and some places without. The managment brainwashing is so successful that people complain that Educator Unions don't care about children as if that is some kind of indictment. Of course, Educator Unions don't care about children, any more than Auto worker unions want to make better cars, or UPS unions want to make shipping faster.
The bottom line, despite widespread management brainwashing, is that Unions work to protect their workers from abuse by management, easy firing for no real reason, and work to increase or at least hold the line on salaries and benefits including retirement options.
It will turn back again, but people need to wake up to management brainwashing.
IMnotsohumbleopinionofcourse. And of course, you may be part of management or you may have been brainwashed at a very early age.
HS