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**casinobonusa** · 02-03-2007, 12:29 AM

This is why WE NEED ANOTHER UNION REVOLUTION!! We need to make unions in more companies like Wal-Mart,,Grocery Stores,,Sears MACY`S And J.C.Penny. And Make unions into Satelite companies as well cable and telephone companies.And put unions in Burger King,McDonalds,Taco Bell and KFC. Then workers can be powerful than the bosses.Look at the NBA,NHL,NFL and MLB unions

Unions were actually a good thing and the demise of them (not too far off into the future) is partly what caused the income inequality and wage degradation over the span of about 20 years. The knowledge worker is now the demand. Fast food restaurants and retail giants like Wal-mart surely would wet their pants at the sight of a union contract. Businesses cannot make as much profit from unions. This is where the worker is screwed.

Outsourcing is another culprit of the degradation of our jobs and unions. A business is surely going to invest in employees in India (whose economy is booming by the way) for $2.00 an hour, rather than pay employees $16 + here.

It surely is a free market guys and I really don't believe that a slow raise in minimum wage is going to make a fuss. Maybe you guys forgot that raises in the fed min wage didn't affect anything because the last time there was one, it was 10 years ago. Sad, really.

02-03-2007, 12:29 AM	#39
casinobonusa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 596 Senior Member	This is why WE NEED ANOTHER UNION REVOLUTION!! We need to make unions in more companies like Wal-Mart,,Grocery Stores,,Sears MACY`S And J.C.Penny. And Make unions into Satelite companies as well cable and telephone companies.And put unions in Burger King,McDonalds,Taco Bell and KFC. Then workers can be powerful than the bosses.Look at the NBA,NHL,NFL and MLB unions Unions were actually a good thing and the demise of them (not too far off into the future) is partly what caused the income inequality and wage degradation over the span of about 20 years. The knowledge worker is now the demand. Fast food restaurants and retail giants like Wal-mart surely would wet their pants at the sight of a union contract. Businesses cannot make as much profit from unions. This is where the worker is screwed. Outsourcing is another culprit of the degradation of our jobs and unions. A business is surely going to invest in employees in India (whose economy is booming by the way) for $2.00 an hour, rather than pay employees $16 + here. It surely is a free market guys and I really don't believe that a slow raise in minimum wage is going to make a fuss. Maybe you guys forgot that raises in the fed min wage didn't affect anything because the last time there was one, it was 10 years ago. Sad, really.
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