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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Fair enough. I've been a non-volunteer member of a couple unions and I know that is true.
This is what I don't get -- they "use their leverage" and everyone bashes them for doing it.
Isn't that what everyone does? Don't we all do what we can do to get our employers to pay us as much as possible? I do.
If the employees are getting "salaries and benefits totally out of line", whose fault is that?
If some guy is getting paid 40 bucks an hour to install a sunroof on a Yukon, what has he done wrong? Someone is (or was) willing to pay him that rate and he takes it.
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Someone was willing to pay him that only after extortion like tactics were used to pry it out of their hands. Sure the employer can say no, but that's simply not a feasible option for a lot of employers. The employer gets to choose between two bad situations, overpay or shut down for an extended period of time.