that is why i would not defend RTW, it seems to me if you want to teach or be a plumber or whatever, you should be able to do so without joining a union if you so choose.
That's what I don't understand. Why would someone not want the freedom of the organization they choose to join. What's the debate? It's your freedom vs no freedom in the provate sector.
If you're worried about wages being low you need also look at inflation and the power of the federal reserve. Wages aren't low just because of greedy employers, but more heavily in the inflation that is outpacing wage increases. Minimum wage is only necessary in an environment where inflation is a constant effect. Like taking Tylenol for chronic headaches, but we all know Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol and it's very addicting and known to cause more headaches. Just a fuck train where the American citizens are getting fucked in the ass.Willyßagseed;6903660 said:What many fail to realize.
Between deregulation, the telecom bill, NAFTA (and other treaties) , the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act and much more shit during the reigns of:
Reagan
Bush Sr.
Clinton
Bush Jr.
and continuing during Obama.
As you know many jobs were shipped off shore, all good due to above felons. We lose jobs, a different country gets cheap jobs making cheap goods shipped back here.. hurray !! we get cheap shit........
You fucking forgot the people who lost jobs...... not only are they either out of work or underemployed underpaid you forgot to take into consideration their spending power before job loss to after job loss.
Since many now spend less after said job loss less $$ is spent, causing small businesses to make smaller profits, causing said business to either pay less for workers or close shop and outsource their jobs....
Please rinse and repeat above for 30 years and tell me what happens..........................
Now that you know what happened and told yourself "ok, well that is how it is people need to work harder and stop asking for entitlements and shit they pay for out of their checks"..........
Fucktard, while this race to the bottom continues, corporations and upper management are all making RECORD profits, there is not a damn thing keeping fair wages to be paid to workers other than the fact they are plain getting robbed right before your eyes and you buy it. The telecom bill made 95% of all news to be controlled by 4-5 corporations who do not report what is really happening.
The profits companies used to reinvest into their own company for worker pay, healthcare and more are still there. They just go to the few now instead of average Joe.
Do me a favor, add up all the pay the fortune 500 CEO's ( I won't even ask you to do all the board members) pay, stock options , all of it. Then divide that by $40,000.00, 40k is a job that pays $15.00 hour and full health benefits.............. After you do the math please tell me how many 40k jobs the CEO's get paid........................ Then do the same math for the average Joe and CEO in 1975.........................
The minimum wage back in 1970 was $1.60 per hour. Todays minimum wage is $7.25 a 353% increase that looks great at first glance. The only problem is that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 37.8 in 1970 and 220.223 in 2011 a 482% increase in the price of an average item.That effectively means that the buying strength of a dollar is significantly weaker by 129% the difference between todays CPI and the CPI of 1970.
Depending where you live minimum wage today should be $12.00 - $18.00 hour , go do the spiral to the bottom math and CEO math and than lie to me and tell me I am wrong... thing is you will still be lying.
How the fuck people can be so blind is beyond me...................
Not an unstable currency that fluctuates independently from our economic activity. That's incredibly naive and pointless. It also solves nothing. Gold dollars can be devalued just as easily as paper money, you just make each dollar represent less gold. At least paper money becomes more or less valuable because of how we use it, gold becomes more or less value based on things completely outside our control. That's why we got rid of it in the first place.
That third party is responsible for the revival of our middle class after the great depression. It's brought us a living wage, weekends off, sick pay, benefits, etc. They've proven they do know what's best for the American workers.
lol. The assumption that there are a lot of people out there who want to work for less money and no benefits is very bizarre.
Who are these people? Who wants to earn less money? Who wants to give up their only bargaining leverage in order to allow corporations to walk all over them?
Nor do we own the upper class a percentage of our wages, yet they get them anyways.
OMG UB is considering something Ron Paul supports... you better change your mind to keep your reputation in order
I think it more bizarre to think that people want others to make their choices for them. You seem uncomfortable with answering the core question...Who should run your life, you or another person?
You are correct nobody owes anybody any money absent a voluntary and consensual agreement. So why not simply stop giving them money?
