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Originally Posted by Addick
In those 30 years, have all managers and owners stopped being greedy and now refuse to exploit/abuse workers if they are able to do so?
Unions are neither perfect nor useless.
Btw, I strongly agree with you that some people have very wrong ideas when it comes to career/wage entitlement.
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Everyone's greedy, no more or less so over the passage of time. Owners want to make larger profits and labour wants to get paid the most for doing the least. The part that has removed a lot of value from unions and essentially what changed the game is the fact that the world is accepting of a mobile work force. If it was the old days where everyone only worked for one employer during their lives there simply weren't higher level jobs available at other companies for a worker to move to if he/she was getting abused at their workplace after they had put in their dues for years.
Now a days when it's rare to have someone stay in one place more than 5 years, it's a real tough sell for me to sympathize with some University educated, white collar brat whining about abuses in the private sector when there are legions of jobs out there due to increased turnover. You're no longer married to your current employer, if there's abuses you have way more power than back in the day. As for the manufacturing sector and the service sector, these are now lower middle class to working poor jobs. Generally, you need more than a high school diploma to live an average lifestyle. This is actually progress that productivity in human capital is expected to come from working with our brains and not our hands.