Saturday, October 3, 2009

An Argument For Unions

From the Brewtown Gumshoe:
Some, in arguing against unions, maintain that increasing union wages can only increase cost in the end because the companies paying higher wages will just pass on the cost. This opinion completely disregards the fact that maybe the executives and managers are overpaid. An equivalent decrease in executive pay alongside an increase in worker pay would therefore lead to no additional costs to the consumer. This is not hard to achieve since executives are making over 300 times as much as their workers.

Or are those arguing against better pay for workers merely unwilling to see management take home less? Is it that under no circumstances must executives receive less compensation, only workers must sacrifice? Executives can have golden parachutes, secure retirements, paid country club memberships, use of the company jet, and perks as far as the eye can see in perpetuity. But the workers are at fault for budgetary issues? The workers must sacrifice and go without? The $12 an-hour they are making is too much?
You can read the whole thing, including points two and three, by clicking here.

4 comments:

  1. Definitely, the gap between the wages at the op and the wages at the bottom are unreasonable. People at the tops of corporations are being paid ridiculous sums while contracting out to the lowest bidder. this is not just.

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  2. And what makes you think that management would take paycuts?
    Did unions have a purpose in the 1900's. Yes. Do they serve a purpose now? No or very little.
    Unions have not evolved into the 21st century. Many unions have not realized that the thug mentality just doesn't work anymore.

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  3. Au contraire, mon frere.

    It is because of the steadily weakened laws regarding the unions taht we see the ever-increasing disparity between the haves and the have-nots, and the erosion of the middle class.

    By reversing the laws that have weakened unions, we could get the economy really humming.

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  4. Is it no accident that we have seen the stagnation of the middle class while unions have been suppressed.

    There has been thuggery on the other side as well.

    It is about time we start standing up to the income inequality that has ruined this country.

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