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joe w | If businesses hate unions so much why aren't they taking better care or their employees? |
So many companies threaten there employees over unions saying things like you will be fired for talking about a union or if a union comes we will close our doors and move else where. However if they really dont want unions to form why are they adopting buisness practices that caused unions to be created in the first place. Low wages, no or inadaquate health insurance, long hours, at will employment. It dosent make any sense. |
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nathanshores
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I think the answer is actually in the question. Unscrupulous and short-sighted managers don't want to pay for taking care of their employees, and unions form to make them take care of employees. Therefore, management is against unions. The only reason these kinds of management even pay their employees wages at all is that they can't quite get away with stiffing people. If they could, they would make people pay for the privilege of working there. It's all about greed; squeezing every dime until it screams, and anybody who tells you anything different is from management. |
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mem_v
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Economists don't like unions because it creates price ceilings (the employees must get paid at least $x, even if their work is only really valued at $y), which hike up the cost of whatever is being produced. Simple issue of supply and demand. Unions keep the price of labor higher than it should be, at the equilibrium point, the extra cost of which eventually trickles down to the consumer. If a car factory in some town in Ohio is paying its employees $30 an hour to do the same work that workers in China will do for $.50 an hour, wouldn't it make more sense to hire the Chinese laborers? The workers getting paid a ridiculous salary for doing menial labor, though they might have a sad story to tell for the time being, will eventually go back to school and become more skilled, more specialized, which every economist loves to see. So it isn't a matter of corporate greed (though it probably does come into play), but common sense. Think about it in these terms: would you rather pay $10 or $40 for the exact same quality toy? |
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Mike M
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Jerry W
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Interesting question. Companies try to produce with the minimum investment in the components needed for producing their product. Common sense would indicate that fact, the lower the cost of producing the product the lower the price in the market place and/or the higher the profits. What they don't think of quite often is that if you go too cheap with your materials and labor you end up with junk that no one wants.
An interesting sidebar to this subject is that a lot of non-union shops have great benefits. But, Why? A few because the truely value their people and recognize that what ever the organization becomes is a result of the the people in the organization, from top to bottom. But more likely is that they are trying to lure workers that might otherwise work in a union shop to get the better benefits. So the unions actually have a significant affect not only on their shops but on non-union shops as well. |
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I like that kind of thinking mate, you need to work for a union somewhere. Business folk will always try to exploit the workers, thats just how it is, theyll never change, not while money and the aquisition of it remains their main motivational factor. unions are very important when you all stand together you have bargaining power....thats another reason employers hate unions. |
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