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This was the most interesting thing I read over the weekend: once public unions in Indiana lost the right to collective bargaining, membership dropped by 90% because it no longer made sense to pay dues.
DH – I agree with everything you said today
I want to see the documentary “Inside Job” that won last night for best documentary about how horrible the wall street mess really was. Am reading the “Big Short” now and it’s effin scary
“Except what that inteferes with shareholder aims, that is. That’s when employees become expendable”
Yes. Corporations are not run like a welfare state to support employees, so, Yes.
If you want a job for life, work for the government. In return for a job for life, you should get lower benefits or at least be required to pay into them
“competition will drive up salaries for workers and/or get more employeed.”
maybe before – but we’ve moved to where workers’ salaries are stagnant and CEO pay has increased exponentially.
don’t tell me that most CEOs don’t think the actual “workers” are unskilled, interchangeable parts.
bxgrl, corporations by & large pay more than small-mid size firms. so unless we’re willing to call out ALL for-profit business are bad, evil, etc picking on large corporations is unfair. fact a corporation is making huge profits is reason why it will draw attention for new competition – ie others want a cut of that too. and competition will drive up salaries for workers and/or get more employeed.
“It is to the CEO’s and the shareholders’ best interests to take care of employees but to do it in the most advantageous and profitable means”
Except what that inteferes with shareholder aims, that is. That’s when employees become expendable.
Of course layoffs and downsizing are unavoidable in some instances, because without a profitable company there are noe employees. However it’s quite understandable that employees would want to have some representation and support beyond the supposedly benevolent CEO.
Oh, also, I just looked at your profile. To which suburb did you move?
vmbpoy, yes, there is a big conspiracy. Mr B is conspiring with Dick Cheney and big corporations to drive up the price of real estate in Gowanus.
Do you manage to tie your own shoes in the morning or do you have to use velcro?
Isn’t it odd that there is no mention of this news on brownstoner today?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/02/27/2011-02-27_bakery_workers_sexually_assaulted_on_job_in_bklyn.html
When news like this isn’t published on this site it lends credence to the critics of brownstoner who think they editorialize. Is the marketplace value going to go down if they mention this?