Stringer wrote:
Without unions, employees can basically be treated like garbage. Why would a company pay somebody more than minimum wage when there's a line around the block with people willing to work for minimum wage?
There are many companies that run just as fine without unions, and the employees are happy and well treated as well...
I strongly doubt that the country's best employers are all unionized. for example, the only automaker to make the top 100 employers list is Toyota, the company who's employees voted against unionization.
One problem is that management and unions usually have a highly adversarial relationship, and nothing gets done. Another is that some workers who should be let go, are hard to fire, and standout workers can be stifled by seniority. Just another example, but we had a teacher who had two B.A.'s and an M.A (in Geography IIRC), raised more money for fundraisers than anyone else and was a great teacher, yet he was forced to go to an inner city school to teach parenting because his spot at our school would be taken by someone who's worked for the union longer...
