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Re: Union

Unions raising wages is an illusion. When unions are successful at raising wages, they do so only at the expense of reducing the number of workers. Those unable to find work in the unionized sector must find work in the non-unionized sector, there by depressing the wages in the non-unionized sector. Unions do not actually raise wages, but in fact increase wages in one group (unionized) at the expense of lowering wages for the remaining (non-unionized) workers.

If you think you can feel comfortably secure in a unionized job, you had better consider the ultimate outcome. General Motors and their UAW unionized workforce illustrate perfectly what happens when a union gets stranglehold on an energetic company. The average cost of making an auto for both GM and nonunion Toyota is about the same. But while Toyota makes a profit of $2000 per vehicle, GM suffers a loss of $1,200 per vehicle. GM can't stay in business much longer at this rate (and Ford and Chrysler are not far behind). Tens of thousands of workers have already been laid off. There is a real danger of the American auto industry to vanish resulting in the unemployment of millions of workers.

By the time this happens, union leaders, who could care less about these hapless workers, will have salted away the millions of dollars they extracted from workers who thought they could depend on the unions to look after their welfare.
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Posted in reply to: Re: Union by C.HAROLD
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Re: Union trent756 3/31/2009 2:08:17 PM
Re: Union Gwester843 3/22/2009 4:58:34 PM