Posted by MarkB_MI on October 06, 2019 at 04:46:13 from (174.230.22.67):
In Reply to: Re: Steel Mill closes posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on October 05, 2019 at 09:43:03:
> Show me where My pay or education was somehow taken off the back of any union?
Nothing in the economy happens in a vacuum. How is it that as an independent shop you're able to compete with with big dealerships? Well, for one thing their overhead is higher. And part of the reason their overhead is high is that they have to compete in the labor market for skilled workers, and if workers are unhappy with their pay and benefits they'll go elsewhere. It's hard to deny that many of the benefits offered by employers (health care, retirement plans) were driven by union demands, then picked up by non-union employers in order to find and keep employees.
I've never had a union job, and every job I've had since leaving college have been salaried. But I fully understand that much of the generous salaries and benefits I've received over the years were the indirect result of union bargaining.
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