Closing Bell: Walgreens Gets the Rat Treatment on Myrtle
Last week a rat popped up on Clinton Avenue. This week it’s Myrtle. The union boys are miffed that Walgreen’s (the store’s doing the work not the developer) is using “untrained and unskilled” workers (their words, not ours) to build out their new digs on the ground-floor of the Clermont Condominium at 375 Myrtle Avenue…
Last week a rat popped up on Clinton Avenue. This week it’s Myrtle. The union boys are miffed that Walgreen’s (the store’s doing the work not the developer) is using “untrained and unskilled” workers (their words, not ours) to build out their new digs on the ground-floor of the Clermont Condominium at 375 Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene. Just curious: What kind of permit does an organization need to get to display an inflatable animal in the middle of the street?
The Clermont Condominium Open For Business [Brownstoner] GMAP
Literally, guys like 9:04 see a union construction worker drinking a cup of coffee and proclaim ever person in every union everywhere as a corrupt mobster. Infantile view.
Good point, Putnamdenizen. I would find it hard to argue that older workers over the past 20 years+ have been treated better than younger workers!
My economics course discussed the role of unions in evenning the playing field between labor and capital. And indeed corporations over the past twenty years have jetisoned older employees (unionized, non-unionized, professionals etc) in order to hire younger, cheaper employees. Hard to see how this is something a society should be proud of, all though it has made some corporate raiders wealthy.
9:04, I thought I was cynical! I happen to have taken a few basic encomics courses and still believe unions have advantages (e.g., curtailing child labor practices, improving worker safety, increasing wages for both union and non-union workers, raising everyone’s standard of living, reducing the hours in a work week, providing public education for children, and bringing other benefits to working class families). I agree they are not perfect, but I do believe they are necessary.
Unions makes money for their older workers simply by keeping other younger willing workers out of the market. Its not about helping all working men and women its about squashing competition and locking new workers out of the market to the benefit of the few at the top. Half these threads could be eliminated if people took a few basic economics courses.
all those non union shitboxes on 4th avenue are all you need to see. CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP
IF you do high quality work, you will be rewarded with buisiness from people who are willing to pay. IF there is a cheaper alternative with similar quality, people will go that route if they choose to. Its economics 101.
Unions try to force themselves down your throat without having to compete on the merits of the quality and price for the work they do.
And you gather this from what?
From what I can gather about construction, you can either pay non-union labor a modest wage to do a marginally competent job, or you can get a 5% quality improvement at 300% of the cost.