I have spent the the last three weeks trying to convince the UFCW local 7 to not strike. I do not unederstand the collective mentality. It seems that they just reject everything that the coporatation proposes. Just because you are stubborn does not make you right. They are offering less benefits to keep jobs. Even the liberal Governor that they helped get elected agrees by vetoing 1170. Keep your jobs, collect your paychecks that the evil corporation gives you. Everything in the corporate proposal is give and all the Union does is take and and kick a scream in their highchairs is that it is unfair. What is unfair about keeping your job and WORKING for a living. So what if it is less than what you EXPECT you HAVE a job and a regular paycheck. That paycheck pays for your I-pod, car that you drive, food for your family, flat screen TV, cable, ect. It is not the corporations fault that you acquired debt that you can not afford and any other luxury that is above house, food, and transportation to work.
So what that the CEO makes more than you, he IS RESPONSIBLE for more than you. None of you Union honks cry that the idiot that come to the stores and does nothing makes more than you. If you want to strike AKA quit go right ahead I will not follow you. $38,000 is a livable wage and whatever they want to give me above that is a bonus. If it is less than what it was So what. The corporation gives and the Union only takes.
jb
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Corperations do not GIVE anything. These people are working hard to make money for their company. Employemnt is a two way street without employees there cannot be a store and without the store there are no jobs. Workers, union or otherwise, do not have a problem with the CEO making more than they do. The problem comes when the dissparity in wages is so vast that the CEO loses touch with the cost of living. If 38,000 is a livable wage, what do you call 4.48 million? Avarice like does not do America or it's working families any good. I do agree that there are overpaid union bosses, however the majority of people working for unions are paid at similiar rates to the rank and file members they represent. Without these unions the workers would not have a voice to negotiate with. If companies acted in a way where hard work was rewarded that may be different, but as of now most companies are looking for ways to pay workers less whether they work hard or not.
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