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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
People will still need parcels delivered, are they the only game in town? No, but it is always best to have competition in an industry. Think about how much a parcel shipment would cost if there was only one company doing it? There's a reason why in Canada we pay much more for domestic flights than most countries, 2 companies hold a monopoly and use it to gouge consumers. And they typically do not share those extra costs with their employees. People blame this poor economy on things like oil, which is a big factor, but they rarely see how big corporations are continuously reducing the amount of money going to the middle class, who are the true driving force to an economy.
This isn't about the union wanting a strike, unions don't want strikes, they are a last resort, this about a big company wanting to make bigger profits at the expense of their employees who at that the end of the day make their money. I wonder if they ever stop to think about the impact of reducing their employee's earnings and how it actually bites them in the ass when they can't afford to even use their service.
Here's a good example of how short sighted some views are on the impact of reducing costs in the name of making bigger profits.
If you've been in a macdonalds recently you've no doubt seen the new screens they use to take your order. Now those 4 screens in the restaurant eliminate 4 jobs in the store, sure that employee probably only made at best $30k a year, but here's where it creates it's impact, that employee can no longer go spend that $30k which has a ripple effect on every business that relies on that customers business. Most people will say, oh but it's not that much money, well if you consider that there are probably 100 macdonalds locations in the province, 4 $30k/year jobs lost at each locations, that would take around $12M out of our provincial economy. Meanwhile your Big Mac hadn't dropped in price, so those cost savings are just going in rotten ronny's pocket.
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Own stock in that company and you just made money. Your story telling to teach us how business works is very biased.
Maybe we should spend more timing trying to train for jobs that actually add value, rather than defend ancient turf that really doesn't serve society anymore. If your job isn't needed and/or a union had to fight to prop up your salary that is welfare. It's just paid to you in a different way. When you have too much of the society on welfare, be it formally through the government, or fake jobs that make people feel better, to the point where the people actually creating the value can't support the system overall you have Canada in 2016. At what point do you look at the massive deficient the county likes to run now and ask yourself if maybe hiding behind unions instead of training to do something more valuable is maybe not the best way to spend a career?
If the market wants to pay someone to press the button that says Big Mac then great, but if it doesn't and that task is easily replaced, then nobody is better off by giving that guy a fake job. He should train for something more valuable and then he can make 40k and inject that into society.