Recent content by crawphish

"It's like a campaign slogan from a while back, worst one ever for America because it's the idea that someone else (union, government, whatever) is going to fix your problems. They aren't and in most cases even if they fix yours they've made it worse for countless others. Don't "hope", get out...

You are ignoring the active measures that large corporations have taken to limit the effectiveness of unions, beginning with the Taft -Hartley bill in 1946

back in the days when union representation was above 50% and often higher in manufacturing commmuninites, the union served as a surrogate for the community voice. So yeah, when wages went up for the union,they went up for the community. then, as Henry Ford undrstood, a community with more money...

Yeah, the River Rouge riot was not an especially good day in the annals of capitalist benevolence.

But there are far fewer cases of unions causing ruing than pure greed by owners. (selling out to venture capitalists who decimate a company, for example). As a small business owner, what would you do if someone wanted to bUy your business for a fortune and carve it into tiny pieces, leaving your...

As so many other people have said on this post, "up your skills." Or maybe it doesn't work that way and we all shouldn't be trashing on people who, for what ever reason, need to stay in a job but want more money. Capital, they say is liquid-- it can go wherever the highest return is. Labor, on...

A Contradiction in your argument: first you say that you don't understand why some feel they are "entitled to X because somebody else got Y," and then you use the example of teachers being paid based on how much it would cost to find another teacher to replace them. That is exactly the same...

Not always. After this CEO raised his company's minimum wage to $70,000, he said the number of babies born to staff each year grew 10-fold and revenue soared

Rather than being greedy maybe the unions should focus on ensuring that their jobs will still exist in another 10-20 years. How precisely does the avarage worker do that, when they (and their union) have no seat at the Board? What's to stop John Deere from selling out to some coporate raider 10...