Sunday OR Saturday was the "weekend" for most people before the unionization of labor.
One day off for church, then everyone goes back to their 6 days a week 80+ hours of dangerous, hard work.
A real weekend, Vacations and medical leave and Retirement as well as the 40 hour work week, overtime rules and OSHA are a product of the lobbying of labor unions.
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Yet the bare minimum is all that unions seem to want their members to do. Mediocrity is rewarded while attempts to excel are discouraged, even punished. This is precisely what sixate finds so frustrating in his union and its exactly what has caused so many bankruptcies and failures within heavily unionized industries.
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Stupid, propagandish statement. I don't think you know clue one about what a union is or does. You seem to have been fed your talking points. Have you any real world experience with a union?
Or perhaps, were you burnt by one?
[quote]As has been established here already, unions strive to create an anti-competitive labor environment. It is designed to benefit the union membership but comes at the cost of those who provide the work opportunities, those outside of the union, as well as those within the union who are denied opportunities in order to protect the very worst. [quote]
That's bluster as you have established no such thing. There is always competition. The company always has the right to fire their workers and hire new ones. All the workers are doing is massing together to maximize their barganing power. That is well within any mans rights. Why give one side of a company all the power to do what they wish? Why would you wish to deny the true backbone of an industry the right to help guide the company in the direction they want to see it go?
I can't prove you wrong, and you can't prove me wrong as there is no enclosed bubble where any of your economic theories has been or could ever be tested out.
But...
If left the way you want it, businesses do what is economical for their business. To maximize their profits. They will cut benefits and amenities as low as they possibly can while still retaining their employees and not hurting their productivity.
With a union workers demand a portion of the profits they help the company earn, and demand as good of working conditions as possibly from their employer. The give and take between labor and employer yields an arangement where, usually they meet somewhere in the middle ensuring an equitable deal for all.