“The unions have consistantly shut down US companies rather than work for a competitive wage.”
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In my local community we had 2 firms leave: dresser pumps and crown cork and seal..why did they leave?? the Union
asked for more benefits & raises when both co’s told them that they would BK them if they agreed..so what happened?
every one of the Union jobs were lost and co’s moved.
Those guys still cry about the great health care and salary that they lost.they were making $20/hr and great benefits as they all now say, but the union would not give even a little.
About 10-15 years ago, when the union contract expired at the local Firestone Plant the company said it needed a wage cut from $18/hr to $16/hr to remain competitive. The union said “no cuts” and walked out. The strike dragged on and the strike fund was exhausted. Thereafter the local rag paper did a sob story on the plight of a worker’s family that couldn’t make ends meet because the strike fund was exhausted and he could only find jobs paying $7/hr.
My first thought was that his skills were only worth $7/hr in the local economy, yet he and I both knew of an employer willing to pay him twice that amount. Yet he refused to take that job because of his union. It’s idiocy.