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Originally Posted by SStockDart
Try this on.
1. A young man in high school decides what he wants to do in life.
2. He goes to college, trade school, or OJT to be trained in his chosen field.
3. He applies for a job. Is explained the details of wages, schedule, and benefits.
4. He accepts the job. If he doesn't like it, he quits.
End of story...no union
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Ok, lets try this,
1) Its 1980. A young man goes to trade school and upon graduation hires in at his new dream job. Its nonunion. He is told about this "great retirement plan he will enjoy after X number of years. He works there 25 years and to his dismay a notice goes up on the bulletin board that due to financial changes the company retirement plan and retirement plan health insurance will be modified. Nervousness sets in as he knows he still has another 10 years to work before his planned retirement. He patiently awaits his "packet that comes in the mail. He and his wife are shocked to find out his health coverage after retirement has been cancelled, and the "system' they use to calculate his pension has been modified to severally drop his monthly pension pay. All of his and his wife's lifetime dreams will have to be modified, many of them scrapped.
VERSES
2) Its 1980. I go to trade school and upon graduation hire in at my new dream job. It's a union shop. I am handed a contract book after my 3-month probation period. In that contract is my Pension and Health coverage. One year during negotiations the company announces they are getting out of the Pension business and are refusing to comply to what was agreed upon during my hiring. We go on STRIKE. After a month of standing out in the cold, we win our demands and in 2017 I retire with all my agreed upon benefits. You know who that happened to ??.... ME!. Well, at least the #2 version. See the difference? And you say Unions are for the birds. This bird likes security, and unions do their best to give it to their members.