Are you also on "my team" for abolishing the minimum wage?
I actually believe that unions were a good idea but it got out of hand many years ago. I am particularly unhappy with govt unions.
Garbage man working for cities such as Detroit, and really all over, probably with overtime and benefits make around 100 grand a year. They will tell you this is untrue, in part because they dont understand the cost of their benefits to us, they dont see it in cash, but their wages aside from the benefits are way out of line.
But unions in non govt have become just as bad ,think of a man that gambles everything on a business idea, mortgages his home, borrows on top of that. Year after year very slowly starting to see some positive results.
Just when he thinks he can take a breath of relief, the workers threaten to shut him down, if they dont get a piece of the pie
My father was a partner in a business, my dad worked hard at keeping the guys happy, they voted down the union every time it came up while my dad was there.
I think there is a happy medium somewhere, I think in govt, if people want a pension above and beyond Social Security, the employee should pay 100 % of it, and it should have nothing to do with the govt at all.
Many people show up at a private company to work to find the doors locked and the notice that the company has gone bankrupt. These folks do not get any severance packages they are penniless.
If a govt such as Detroit goes bankrupt, the employees should be in the same boat as the private workers I mentioned, meaning walking away with nothing.
But NO I am not against a minimum wage. While I agree 15 bucks is to high, 5 bucks is to low, so I am for some kind of minimum wage, but if it`s to high, why bother going to college right.
You probably wont like my answer but there it is.
I would like to see us start with Govt unions, start by trying to scrap all benefits above and beyond Social Security.
If the unions want something above and beyond that, it will have to be 100% out of the employees pocket, and not connected with the govt at all
I believe that this is the main culprit with all the cities threatening bankruptcy .
Also the wage for govt workers is to high, and they should not be allowed to hold the country hostage with a strike. I would think govt jobs should start at minimum wage, whatever that is.
I would not like to see people working for 3 and 5 bucks an hour, maybe students and baby sitters