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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Unionized web designers? What a joke!
I think the real problem here is that the world changed from 30 years ago and those who joined up with Air Canada at that time thought they could be entitled to a middle class existance in perpetuity without having to put in any effort outside of work hours to upgrade their skills or become more productive.
I witnessed this fall from grace first hand as a teenager and then University student working at Safeway. There was a time where people who stocked shelves at grocery stores made $25/hour with full benefits in a world where the cost of living was half as much. These people were the most bitter people on Earth when the new contracts came in bringing their wages down to $18/hour, nominally $7/hr less than 10 years prior. The other side of the coin though is that these people were as productive as 16 year olds making $7.50/hr. Somehow, someway, wages had to reflect that reality and not the romantic notion of one job for life that pays a healthy middle class wage. If the union got what they asked for each collective bargaining agreement, Safeway would have never had a chance to compete and everyone is out of a job.
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Quoted for truth. One of the biggest problems with some union workers is that they think they are entitled to a middle class wage performing a job that requires no education, qualification or training.