Neither management nor unions are magnanimous, concerned, loving, brotherly, principled etc,etc..
The big corporate and big union bosses are like two peas in a pod....I have seen double-crosses pulled by both !
They just play off each other..each demonizing the other...all at the cost of the working stiff...
That's another shot in the X ring.
The point I was trying to make was that every thing has a balance. Just as everyone shouldn't carry a firearm, not every one should be in the union.
As a 20% group of people that carry concealed reduces crime, the same is true with union membership keeping employee pay and benefits up, or, at least it should.
The sad fact is that a lot of employers couldn't give a rat's tail about the employee's, and there are certainly a lot of employee's who feel no obligation to do anything but collect a paycheck.
Labor is now a commodity with globalization and free trade agreements a tool to exploit labor and increase profits.
Nothing wrong with making a profit. That's what all business is intended to do. However, there should be, in a perfect world, a moral obligation to improve the lives of those associated with making that profit.
Labor unions took advantage of the situation in the past, but now corporate america has the upper hand and the balance has shifted. I'd just like to see things go back to the center and employee/management relationships based on moral obligation rather than maximizeing profit.
What good is it a man profit but loose his soul in the process?
