How can college educated workers earning six figure incomes be unionized? Isn't the purpose of union labor to protect the blue collar laborer from being exploited at low wages?
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In my heavily unionized state, the purpose of unions is to protect the slackers and goof-offs from being fired.
Thank you! Someone had to say it! Unions had a time and a place, and now they NEED TO GO!
Personal anecdote time by a Woman on Caroline Street...
A few years ago, I was out of work and took any temp employment I could find. The agency sent me to a publishing warehouse to do some cost accounting. I finished the job super early and the office manager felt badly so she gave me a copying job so I could get a few more hours on my time card. She needed 300 copies of some addendums to be added to the employees' handbooks.
This place used a ton of pallette forklifts run by unionized workers. The company spent nearly a quarter million (I had just done the cost accounting, so I KNOW what they spent) in upkeep and maintenance on these things.
So as I'm copying these sheets and reading them. It all had to do with "horseplay" and "near miss accidents" with the forklifts. It went on and on about fourth and fifth occurrences of what would happen if you screw around on the forklifts. NOT ONCE did I see the word TERMINATED mentioned. Golly gee, I'd like to F&*! up four and five times for the same thing and keep MY job!
I think I'm gonna go to Walgreen's more often. Way to go!