Here's how that plays out, Cam. Union Worker X makes $40K a year. Company hires worker Y and says, I'll pay you $42K a year if you don't join the union. Worker Y realizes that they'd be bringing home more money, so they don't join the union. Company offers to pay Worker X $42K a year if he leaves the union. Worker X leaves the union to make $42K. Union gets dissolved because too many people left. Company drops the pay rate of both Worker X and Y to 38K a year because of "restructuring" or some such and can do so with no repercussions because they don't have to face collective bargaining. Company now gets to go happily along paying less because they broke the union and current law makes it significantly difficult to start a new union.
It's the same fundamental strategy that Walmart has used successfully to expand. They go into a rural area, take a loss on a number of basic items for a year or two and force their smaller competition out of business because the smaller guys can't absorb a loss like that. Then, lacking competition, they are able to gradually bring prices up and make back what they lost and more and the barrier to entry for potential competitors is high, helping Walmart lock in that market. It's a great corporate strategy, no doubt. But it sucks for workers and consumers. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > So you're cool with being paid much less than your peers etc. > > > > If it legitimately gave me some benefit, I would choose to pay the dues. > > I guess it's possible that you are feel blue collar workers are just to > stupid to understand wether or not it helps them to be in a union. If it so > clearly gets them more money, then I wouldn't think voluntary membership > would be such a huge challenge. > > -Cameron > > .... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359040 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
