Posted on 10/07/2006 9:13:02 PM PDT by SmithL
You'd think the unions around here would be against the illegals undercutting them buy working for less wages, but the union leaders around here see them as new, dues paying members. The unions have sold out completely to the Dems and their moonbat agenda.
And in any case, the city unions here are good at, um, ensuring that "scab" job sites are picketed and effectively shut down.
Hee hee hee hee.
Recruiting illegals for a union is just a dumb move probably done in desperation. The fact of the matter is, a good union could dry up/reduce jobs for illegals.
This will probably never happen, except in places where it has already happened.
If unions were needed, they would be growing. The facts are that unions are more irrelevent because they spend less and less time actually trying to help workers and more and more time trying to gain power and money so they can enact more and more liberal laws through legislators they spend more and more money to buy.
Oh, like union membership ever motivated anyone! Competition is a good thing, which is why unions don't want anything to do with it.
Competition is a good thing, which is why unions don't want anything to do with it.
Not always. When China competes with a U.S. workforce, the U.S. workforce always loses on the basis of wages. When unskilled labor competes against an illegal workforce, the unskilled always lose.
At leaast they put it on the opinion page...
"the minimum wage is not a living wage"
NO!? REALLY?! I truly don't know what original intent behind the minimum wage was, but here's the fact: Jobs are paid according to what they are worth to the company. There are a lot of factors influencing this decision. If the job is minimum wage, that's its value to the company. Therefore, if one is working in a minimum wage job and one doesn't like it, one needs to do something about it. Badgering the company to pay you $100,000 per year to be the mail clerk isn't likely to work. If you're in some one-horse, low margin company, the owner may be the only person who makes a decent wage. There is an answer to this conundrum: Get some skills, become a plumber or an electrician. Go to college, learn to be an accountant or an engineer. But don't whine because you want to smoke dope all night and not better yourself.
There was a time, when I was young, not that long ago, when minimum wage jobs were held by high school kids or people getting their first job. Now some group of morons wants to make them a "living wage." What a crock. What a jacked-up understanding of basic economics.
Excuse the rant, this just gets my goat...
"If it's bad for the unions, it's good for America."
ABSOLUTELY....ever wonder why the japanese car companies are doing so well in the US....the vehicles are manufactured here.....yet, they are profitable!!!
guess it is all the union workers NOT working in their plants!
Actually, we have proof that the Treasury has received record revenues BECAUSE of the increased economic activity the tax reductions fostered. What a bald-faced lie this statement represents. Not only do these people live on a different planet, they think they can transport us there simply by uttering blatant falsehoods.
Should probably point out that it's not illegals working in those plants, either.
"labor unions" were a communist construct anyway! The proper
way to relate to labor is to give the worker a stake in the company so that he or she will have a motive to increase productivity: Worker/management relations should be controlled by contract.
This guy is full of the well known commodity. Unions by their nature became corrupt and continue to be so. Their power came from intimidation not from any lofty societal motives. Unions have long been in the pockets of crooks and that includes their Dimocrat minions in the House and Senate.
...to go with ANN MCFEATTERS' liberal whine...
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