[TheForge] Re: OT: several questions and thoughts

[Justin Fellenz]

Wait, you're both right. (you'd think I was a middle child...)
   
  Unions are wonderful things when the workers are being abused. We inherited the industrial ethics of Victorian England, a lovely mechanistic oversimplification of self-interest in which workers were I would say just about inarguably and widely exploited.
   
  That's not to say you can't have too much of a good thing. I think it was Andy  who pointed out (paraphrasing) that if wages get too high, the product won't turn a profit and the company will fail. If the overblown wages span an industry as they do in the case of unions, then the industry itself finds itself in trouble. And if the industry is crucial to the national financial structure, like automobiles or airlines, well, the unions become a matter of national secuity.
   
  A little balance goes a long way. Not our strong suit here.
   
  JRF

schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
  
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Demon Buddha wrote:
> I've yet to see a union accomplish anything useful to either their 
> constituents or anyone other than themselves.





http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

In 2005, full-time wage and salary workers who were union members had
median usual weekly earnings of $801, compared with a median of $622 for
wage and salary workers who were not represented by unions.

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