but what if it can be clearly shown that these foreign sites hate our freedums and support terrists? anything goes then, right?
or what if they thought these sites were GOING to hate our freedums or support terrists in the future time? and they retaliated pre-emptively?
If you look back at why unions starter (1920s, 1930s) you will see that most of those reasons (child labor, very unsafe working conditions, no 'fair' pay i.e. working for a 5 cents a day when a day was 18 hours long) have been taken care of by laws.
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union. There may be a few that are actually helping the workers. So far, the unions I have seen have all made sure that they (the union) gets paid. Sometimes at the cost of the company, usually at the cost of the workers they are supposed to be helping.
I agree that most of the existing unions probably accomplished what they set out to do a couple of decades ago. I would argue that the biggest contribution the larger unions make today is in helping to identify other areas which have not had union representation in the past and are behind the times in wages and benefits; I'm thinking mainly of the fast food/service industry that has been trying to catch up recently.
Of course, the existing unions have more than just an altruistic motive to help these other groups unionize; there is that whole lobbying industry to support. I can't remember, have lobbyists unionized yet?
Perception? Their vehicles are "built in the USA" more so than the so-called American car companies.
I was just referring to the fact that not all of their cars are built in the USA, I agree with you, they are definitely better than GM and Ford on building in the US.
I hadn't heard that Toyota had on-site pharmacies, but it makes complete sense; corporations can negotiate much better prices and I would assume they don't have to worry about the strict regulations on those "dangerous Canadian" drugs that consumers are forced to deal with.
To be fair to GM and Ford, they have a generation or two of union costs on them that the new Toyota and Honda ventures do not. Let's see if the Asian manufactures can continue as they are now after they have as many US retirees as US employees. Maybe they can, but I'll be surprised.
The extra generation of union costs that have really brought down the big 3 (2 1/2 really) were the pension funds and healthcare. Pensions are no longer expected in new factories since most workers under the age of 30 have no traces of the concept in their memory. If the foreign manufacturers can find ways to keep health care costs under control they will continue to have a serious advantage over GM and Ford and be able to keep the "built in the USA" perception.
Find a way to allow unbiased, technically astute (for their field), peer-moderated people to ask relevant questions in an open forum, and you have something most people would LOVE to see. I just can't think of a way to do this on a mass scale. If anyone else has an idea, I'd love to hear it!
That's simple! Just put it on Fox, place the technically astute crowd on a deserted island, force them to compete in meaningless competitions and eat horrific things and it will draw a massive audience.
Oh, and replace the technically astute crowd with drunken half-naked cheerleaders.
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but what if it can be clearly shown that these foreign sites hate our freedums and support terrists? anything goes then, right? or what if they thought these sites were GOING to hate our freedums or support terrists in the future time? and they retaliated pre-emptively?
hmm, people need motivation to vote? i've got it! let's pay them to cast their vote. it works really well in congress.
If you look back at why unions starter (1920s, 1930s) you will see that most of those reasons (child labor, very unsafe working conditions, no 'fair' pay i.e. working for a 5 cents a day when a day was 18 hours long) have been taken care of by laws.
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union. There may be a few that are actually helping the workers. So far, the unions I have seen have all made sure that they (the union) gets paid. Sometimes at the cost of the company, usually at the cost of the workers they are supposed to be helping.
I agree that most of the existing unions probably accomplished what they set out to do a couple of decades ago. I would argue that the biggest contribution the larger unions make today is in helping to identify other areas which have not had union representation in the past and are behind the times in wages and benefits; I'm thinking mainly of the fast food/service industry that has been trying to catch up recently. Of course, the existing unions have more than just an altruistic motive to help these other groups unionize; there is that whole lobbying industry to support. I can't remember, have lobbyists unionized yet?
Perception? Their vehicles are "built in the USA" more so than the so-called American car companies.
I was just referring to the fact that not all of their cars are built in the USA, I agree with you, they are definitely better than GM and Ford on building in the US. I hadn't heard that Toyota had on-site pharmacies, but it makes complete sense; corporations can negotiate much better prices and I would assume they don't have to worry about the strict regulations on those "dangerous Canadian" drugs that consumers are forced to deal with.
To be fair to GM and Ford, they have a generation or two of union costs on them that the new Toyota and Honda ventures do not. Let's see if the Asian manufactures can continue as they are now after they have as many US retirees as US employees. Maybe they can, but I'll be surprised.
The extra generation of union costs that have really brought down the big 3 (2 1/2 really) were the pension funds and healthcare. Pensions are no longer expected in new factories since most workers under the age of 30 have no traces of the concept in their memory. If the foreign manufacturers can find ways to keep health care costs under control they will continue to have a serious advantage over GM and Ford and be able to keep the "built in the USA" perception.
Find a way to allow unbiased, technically astute (for their field), peer-moderated people to ask relevant questions in an open forum, and you have something most people would LOVE to see. I just can't think of a way to do this on a mass scale. If anyone else has an idea, I'd love to hear it!
That's simple! Just put it on Fox, place the technically astute crowd on a deserted island, force them to compete in meaningless competitions and eat horrific things and it will draw a massive audience. Oh, and replace the technically astute crowd with drunken half-naked cheerleaders.
Now I know how to explain all of those Jessica Alba pics on my machine.