Quote:Eric, blaming unions for management's wish to pay pennies per hour for labor just doesn't make any sense to me...

No one would work for pennies an hour, there's plenty of evidence that wages do not deflate with the absence of unions.


Union workers do however drive up cost with fringe benefits beyond the normal wage. Again when you inject third parties the balance between supply and demand is altered. There was a point and time that workers had to organize to deal with wages, in that day there was only one plant to work in and most employers held workers hostage knowing they couldn't find work anywhere else. That's not even close to today's situation, now unions demand double sometimes triple the wage regular workers make, double the fringe benefits and half the work load. Of course companies will seek cheaper production cost that's natural but now it's to the point it's cheaper to move a company over seas then deal with union demands.


Just like at the auto manufacturing industry they still build plants in the United States they just avoid union states.

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