BTW, for those of you Union Haters who are enjoying Health Benefits, paid vacations and holidays and sick days. These were unheard of before the Unions fought for and won these consessions from corporations. If you are hired into a Union shop as middle management, their benifit package and wages are closely tied to the union workers. as the workers wage and benifits go down, and they are going to in the coming years, so goes down the middle management and this will gradually work its way up the ladder. The free worker thoery workds both ways, no company in todays USA is forced to employ Union labor. No company is forced to ratify a contract. In nearly all cases, Union/company relationship helps both. If it does not, then the company forces the Union out and is justified in doing so. For those using ford and Gm as examples of bad union business, you are short sighted, the major cause of this is not the wages that a car maker is being paid, it is the cost of health care. This is not the workers fault or the companys fault. It is the skyrocketing cost of health care. The workers at ford and GM are making huge concessions in a cooperative effort to try to pull out of it. If you really want to get down to it, the inablilty of GM and Ford to compete in todays auto industry is more managements responsiblilty than any body elses. Peopel arent buying hondas and toyotas because they cost so much less due to cheap labor. They are building better cars that fit todays world.
