State of the Unions Pt1

Philip Dine: Unions extremely disappointed with Obama but where is their independence?

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[brokendave]

@DeraJa Wait until you're fired for no legitimate reason, can't find a new job, and are without healthcare, then tell me how dumb unions are.

[moestietabarnak]

Look like you have a restrictive view of the unions.

You need union in the IT industry, all uneducated ?

People think that they are immune to management abuse, look up all the outsourcing! Look at how people with 30 years in the industry get entry level wage because they don't happen to have 5 years in the latest tech. Wich other industry is your experience dismissed so easily?

What about people doing 2-3 jobs to meet end. what a crap! one should be enough ! as it was before!

[FletchforFreedom]

The biggest cause of "wage reduction" has been a greater demand for benefits. Total compensation has continually risen for decades; only the form that compensation has taken has changed.

Lower barriers has resuted in more and higher-paying jobs being INsourced into the United States. This is why, suring the most robust period of "outsourcing" - the late 1990s - unemployment was so low.

[FletchforFreedom]

The correlation between labor union power and middle class prosperity is negative (which is why union power has declined). Unions have done a great deal of good for their members - NOT the economy as a whole. Middle class living standards and compensation have NOT been declinig and "deindustrialization" is a myth directly in conflict withthe actual facts.

It is actually the socialist aspects of our government that CAUSED the current economic crisis.

[dianarose13]

The unions have sold out the workers. The leadership of the unions have integrated with the management of corporations. The democratic party swallows up all the progressive movements, whether labor or peace, and keeps them quiet. Just be patient.

[jimlaregina]

We've had Democrats in control and Republicans in control, but when is the last time anything's improved? Since 1980 we've had only declines in wages, health care, education, and infrastructure in the United States.

Vote independent. Vote small party. Just don't vote for Democrats and Republicans.

[hobo59]

You Mr. Barrabas are either an idiot who has never traveled south of the Mason Dixon line or just another Liberal apologist, defending a practice of Liberalism which has led to the destruction of the infrastructure of not just Detroit. But soon to follow in Detroit's footsteps, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, N.Y.City, Boston,Hartford Buffalo, Albany. All cities who are falling apart under the liberal policies of Democratic regimes.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

No, Mr. hobo, what it shows is that ten out of the ten poorest states in the US - which are at least 'as run down and decrepit as Detroit' - are 'south of the Mason Dixon line' red states.

That's ten out of ten.

QED

[hobo59]

When you look at BO's contributors the Banks are the only the top contributors disclosed. Many believe he had money filtered in from overseas with anonymous internet donations.

[hobo59]

Thank you Mr. Barrabas, you've proved my point quite well. Lower median income and yet not a single city in shambles like Detroit. That shows that through good administration by Republican Legislators has proved invaluable to a higher standard of living even when dealing with lower median income from those who don't think money is everything.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Lowest median household income: New Mexico$40,629 Montana $40,627 Tennessee$40,315 Kentucky$39,372 Louisiana$39,337 Alabama$38,783 Oklahoma$38,770 Arkansas$36,599 West Virginia$35,059 Mississippi$34,473 Source:U.S. Census Bureau Notice a pattern, Mr. Mason-Dixon?

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

'The richest (and poorest) places in the U.S.', CNNMoney(dot)com: Highest median household income: Maryland$65,144 New Jersey$64,470 Connecticut$63,422 Hawaii$61,160 Massachusetts$59,963 New Hampshire$59,683 Alaska$59,393 California$56,645 Virginia$56,277 Minnesota$54,023