...I am ignorant to the ways of Canadian government and her policies...so I really can't comment other than to say I believe that I have read on a number of occasions that you are taxed at 50% ?? I know it's an issue with a lot of athletes...but that may explain (partially) why some services are much cheaper (if true) than down here...and I don't honestly know of too many companies that offer more than the laws require them to, I'm sure they're out there, but where??...I'll be the first to admit that not all companies would need organized labor if companies took care of their workers (some do) but the majority do not...I mean, why give more than you have to, this isn't charity...but at one time there were no incentives at all for workers...it may seem hard to imagine nowadays, but ask your parents or grandparents what it used to be like...we take a lot for granted these days...union membership is at it's lowest in decades and you know what??...the middle class is at it's lowest percentage in decades as well...organized labor has no intention of being as wealthy as management, it's much greater than our wages, it's about quality of life...I don't need a CEOs salary to live a good life...it's about protection (insurance), retirement (our Social Security program is in debt and may not be around when I'm at that age), safety regulations (I want to go home after a hard days work and I don't need my supervisor asking me to do something stupid so they can cut costs or save time), respect (just because you have a 'title' doesn't mean you're better than me or that you 'own' me), it's about pride and self respect...ask a worker who belongs to the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) if their quality of life hasn't improved...I've met with some personally and they couldn't be happier!!...but each countrie and state is unique unto itself...but what I've been posting these past several days is what I (and many others) see on an everyday basis right here, right now!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:17:13 AM)| |  | Head banger wrote: | | explain why companies provide more benefits than regulations or contracts require?
explain also, why the province with the least unions in canada has the highest average wage. thats the middle class benefiting. is this the same in the states?
| | | ronhartsell wrote: | | And here's one last thing I want to say to those who find it fashionable to bash the Unions...
...try to name something at the workplace that helps a person be middle class that wasn't brought about by labor unions...
...think hard...the 8 hour work day, contract wages, paid vacations, paid holidays, retirement plans, health and hospitalization insurance, overtime pay, call-in pay, seniority rights, recall rights, safety regulations, grievance and arbitration procedures, whatever, and I can tell you where and when American workers went on bitterly faught strikes to bring those things about...
...Think, too about public schools, free text books, one-man-one-vote, direct elections of U.S. senators, child labor laws, state hospitals, workers compensation for killed or injured workers, unemployment insurance, minimum wages, mechanic lien laws, abolition of debtors prisons, anti-blacklisting laws, Social Security, all of which American unions agitated for, in some cases started in the 1880's...
...Any person who works for a living owes an unrepayable debt to the men and women who, acting through their unions, brought about by collective bargaining the wages, hours and working conditions that are today so common-place in our mines, factories, stores, and offices, whether unionized or not, that are taken for granted...
...They should never be taken for granted, for it's these very wages, benefits, and working conditions that are under assault today. Every time an air traffic controllers union gets busted, Greyhound Bus driver or Eastern Airlines pilots lose a strike, Caterpillar workers return to work without a contract our unions "give back a benefit", a little more of the "middle class" has been diminished...
...it has been said that "as the unions go, so do the middle class"...you cannot deny the parallels!! |
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