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Originally Posted by Azure
It is in the best interest of the trucking companies who do billions upon billions worth of work each year to pay affordable and fair salaries to retain and hire new employees.
The market already determines the wages for millions of other workers in a non-unionized workplace, and it would do the same for all current unionized employees.
That being said, if the original point of the union was to ensure fair wages and a safe workplace, then the government has to do their due diligence to make sure companies follow proper safety protocols.
As for teachers unions, I agree they need to be disbanded.
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Who should do the disbanding of teacher's unions?
As for Lord Conrad, it's kind of funny how he gripes about the "cronyism, and excessive compensation for the controlling families and cliques." inherent in unions.
Before he went to the klink, he wasn't exactly a rags to riches story.
He does make an interesting point about "ununionized" schools doing better than those that are unionized. Who would have thunk that private schools, like Upper Canada College, turn out more accomplished students than your average public school? If only everyone would send their children to private school, we'd all be better off.
The shot at the auto unions is also a good one. Those union people on the assembly lines in Detroit made the terrible, short-sighted decision to design and market all those crappy crappy cars that nobody wanted to buy, and then funneled their outrageous wages to Japan.
A Pinto in every driveway!