Morning Joe Crew: "Name a Successful Unionized Company!"

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Jim Cramer and Andrew Ross Sorkin on MSNBC's Morning Joe, June 3, 2009

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[CarryANation2]

NBC is a successful unionized company. Idiots.

[LifeinaRaindrop]

While they blame the unions, you don't hear anything about major construction corporations (highly unionized) going under... nor rotor rooter and its plumbers, or much of anything else taking place. It merely boils down to ignorance on behalf of the right.

[MrJonisaurus]

@UniversalMeme That'S why Germany, a mega unionised country, much more than the US, is doing so bad. Especially bad in exporting stuff.

Think again. It's not the unions at fault.

[DanMonDab]

Labor unions are nothing but the legalization of organized crime.

[sketchydc]

Microsoft has several unions.

[phippsed]

@eunicron

when unions negotiate for higher wages where do you think the money comes from? It doesn't come from the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny. It comes from consumers. Essentially the union transfers money from non-union members to union members. And of course they skim a little bit of the top. Some union bosses make 400K plus. Being against this little operation does not make you anti-labor. Living standards have rose to do improved technology, not labor unions.

[elsquibbs]

Labor unions are nothing but a pack of extortionists masquerading as victims.

[eunicron]

Well, it certainly has become fashionable to be anti-labor lately, even among working class people.

Obviously few union haters were around to witness the standard of living and working conditions that led to the organization of labor in the first place.

Yes, some people abuse it, as with any system, but I have real difficulty understanding why middle class people object to other working people trying to earn a living wage and provide for their families.

[UniversalMeme]

Labor unions are bad because they drive up costs for consumers. Cost rises make businesses go overseas. Americans lose jobs because of unions.

Corporations try to run businesses effeciently and reduce costs for consumers. Reduced costs let consumers buy more and you get a diversified economy where jobs are cre ated in many sectors. American's standard of living rises because of corporations.

Corporations are good. Unions are bad.

Unionization is bad for America.

[shikagonga]

it depends on what your definition of a 'successful company' is. that cunt sorkin probably championed those same banks that raked in billions not so long ago, only for them to go cap in hand for a bailout.

union membership will grow because workers are fed up with the unequal distribution of profits, and on the face of it, these ceo's are hardly doing anything specialised

[pizzintea]

They are drinking starbucks, they have a deal now with starbucks. You can easily find the video now where they proclaim their joy that starbucks now endorses their show.

[greyflcn]

re: theyugo

If corporations are formed to create collective bargaining power.

What's so wrong about labor unions having collective bargaining power?

Why would collective bargaining be good for one side, and bad for the other?