Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Originally posted by: Medicated858
Originally posted by: Lucky
first off nobody makes $17/hour, that is just a token figure.
I've read firsthand interview with checkers who think their job is something to keep for life since it pays so much. Yes, these people DO get paid that much. Yes, the COL is higher in california but to make nearly 40K for a skills free job....and then to bitch about having to pay a little more in health care premium is outrageous! (Why do union workers ALWAYS think they are exempt from having to pay higher health care costs?)
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Try talking to actual baggers, which I have, they don't make anywhere near that type of money. Try actually reading what they are taking away from the workers. They are cutting their pensions plans and their medical plans and freezing their wages for two years. News flash genius without unions you'd still be getting paid $1 an hour. Unions are the reason we actually have reasonable wages, no no by all means lets go back to the early 1900's where corporations owned workers and there was nothing they could do about it.
Wow - you sure do know a lot of things that aren't so
Without a Union the baggers would NOT be getting paid $1/hr. Now I know your going to blabber on about how the Union saved the worker way back when, but thats fine - Unions served a purpose back then. Now days though they aren't needed. People are more informed, free moving, and not as loyal to a company(they switch jobs often). This means that if you don't like an employer and how they treat/pay you - you can leave. Wow - what a concept. Taking personal responsibility for your own job/income - whodda thunk it.
People who "NEED" Unions are weak. Come on take charge of YOURSELF for once - only YOU know what is best for YOU, not some Union reps asshat or some elected official in Washington who things you "NEED" this or that because you can't do it or survive without it.
Bottom line - Take charge of your own life, you don't "need" their supposed "help"
CkG