What's wrong with workers having "prevailing" health-care benefits? Have you got something against workers?
No, he's probably got something against still more SOCIALISM, which is what government-mandated health-care benefits will be.
Absolutely not one thing.
What's wrong with letting Wal-Mart and the workers decide that, instead of the damn government?
If workers are "given" prevailing health care benefits by law, then the rest of their conciliary will go down or be frozen. The money has to come from somewhere.
I would rather be paid a better wage, and work for a company with a buoyant pay structure than for a company where a large part of my pay comes in benefits that I do not want, or can find elsewhere at a rate/coverage that suits me. That is my choice - but unionised companies can't deal with that, seemingly. They made bad economic decisions in the past and now want to drag everyone else down to their level.
Because Unions have destroyed many industries with their "prevailing" benefits.
Workers have the choice to unionize. They've chosen not to do so. Instead of taking no for an answer, the Unions turn to lawmakers and get them to legislate protections for unions that the people don't support.
Unions squeeze every possible cent out of employers by artificially limiting the labor market. They cause inflation that hurts everyone. They give big benefits to workers in good economic times, but when the bad economic times, the Unions and their workers aren't willing to take a cut.
When the costs of those high priced health benefits soar, they arn't willing to have their workers pay for part of the costs. The results is more inflation, and less competitiveness. More jobs are cheaper to send overseas than to do domestically. Obscenely expensive automation becomes cost effective and people lose jobs.
One of the worst things about unions is they treat all workers the same regardless of their performance. Pay is based on job clasification and seniority. Hard work is not encouraged. Productivity is not encouraged.
Unions are dictate socialist practices which have been economic failures everywhere they have been tried.
These people are full of sh!t. Why only grocery stores?