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The wife of one of my friends was a junior high art teacher for 30 years. She retired with full benefits at age 52.. The lady she replaced is still alive and still getting benefits from that job and naturally there is another younger lady now teaching that class. So the state is paying 3 people for that one position.
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here is a very united workforce in this country. we had big government up until recently with the state owned enterprises, but now the chinese and south koreans are making moves on all of it. the unions don't like that... i'm pretty sure the unions here want to keep our assets new zealand owned when the chinese have their way i think we can expect some surprising changes.
power companies, train and truck companies, dotcom companies, farming companies... all government owned and run with the lifeblood of the employee within them then the unions. but the chinese are in town and are buying up, and they are willing to sell. |
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The network of unions are bad for feudalism.
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There is no reason for a soldier to retire when he/she is 38. Same with teachers and all public employees. It should be like the civilian world. You retire when you are 65. If their are circumstances such as injured military veterans those should be dealt with individually. I am a Vietnam era army vet, and at times it's almost embarrassing at how much I received from the government for my 2 active years of duty. I left the army healthy and I don't feel I deserved the same benefits as a soldier that left hurt. Again, in the case of injured combat veterans, those people deserve what ever they need to live their lives. I don't have statistics at my fingertips, but I know that the largest percentage of military people have not and won't ever see combat. |
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I really don't think I would want 60-year-old Grandmas and Grandpas teaching teenagers in High School. There is a generational change and new ideas need to be brought to the table in schools by younger and more contemporary teachers. |
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You can't protect the middle class with unions. It shortcircuits the merit system and destroys productivity, innovation and common sense. It also attracts fucking idiots and suckles stupidity. And yes, I have worked in several unions early in life. Unions also are set up to fail in the sense that, the wrong things are incentivized.
Unfortunately big corporations run amok have the same problem where they are incentivized to have poor outcomes for everyone else (even themselves in the long term). I don't believe in regulation except where systems are broken. But I'm beginning to believe that some far reaching regulation is needed. Is it right that BigBoxMart can import chinese shit, pay next to nothing, game the tax system, and use science and marketing and behavioural research and monopolies/price fixing/uncompetitive practices to sell that same .50c item for a 10000% markup to the unsuspecting sap barey making ends meet? I'm starting to think no. The question is, how do you interfere without breaking more feedback loops that make things work well, and creating more stagnant profiteering? |
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I think any soldier who ends up in combat should get any and all benefits they can, but most people who go into the military don't end up in combat. I personally know about a dozen people who served in the military. One of them was in combat and one served as a presidential guard. the rest had various jobs. One was a construction worker, another was a mechanic, a couple were administrative people. The one guy I know that retired from the military worked as a ticketing agent for 20 years. If you work at a regular job for 20 years you shouldn't be able to retire at 30 and collect 50% of your pay for life. |
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It is apparently being used as a safety net for the over 40 crowd who have run out of unemployment and is rife with fraud. At $135 billion a year and no active oversight no wonder things are in the shitter domestically. |
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Every union worker I've come across. They are all experts in "work avoidance"
For the most part they're assholes too. In New Youk and Chicago it's bad |
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Bank people need a French Rev OG Smackdown. Here's a link http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50156574n |
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My brother is in a union, but the company he works for staffs their job sites with the right amount of workers so they all have to work and do their job or things don't get done and they could lose their contracts. It is a different situation with government workers. One of my buddy's grandpa was in the union and worked for the city works division for 25 years. There were often times when they had nothing to do so their boss would send them to a location and tell them to dig a hole then fill it back in just so they looked busy. Other times they would do jobs that needed to be done, but they would have an extended time frame so they could take their time and slack on it. |
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Now they at least know where they sleep. But they still don't bother to wake'em up. Also, under union rules...employees are prohibited from fixing their own equipment (even if its a minor repair like tightening a machine bolt or something simple). They have to sit around and wait for the designated repair guy to show up and do it - which often takes hours. |
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It's not perfect, and nothing is. Gold plated pensions are not sustainable with people retiring around the same age but living longer. Those liabilities (full or almost full salary for life, gold plated health insurance for life) are piling up, but it doesn't mean the entire system is broken. It worked for many many decades. They need a scalpel taken to them to be modernized. They don't need to be stabbed to death. Employers that actually treat their employees well usually do not have to worry about their workers unionizing. |
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Then we will all buy from other low wage production in places in Asia or Africa -- this is the "spiral-down" of globalization. If you try to compete on price alone you will get the least loyal customers -- the first guy that offers a better price for a comparable product will grab that customer. That is the fault in discount marketing. |
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Not long ago a new hotel opened and had a Van to pick up people at the airport. They did not pay the taxi union 4k a month so the taxis decided to stop ALL movement in the hotel zone of Cancun until the new hotel either got rid of the van or paid the outstanding balance owed and then monthly. Had all vehicles stopped for more than 6 hours. No tour buses, no nothing. |
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