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Nespin Fernagon Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 5:54 pm
Lets start this off with something controversial, shall we?
Unions. Originally they were meant to prevent management from doing unfair things to their workers - however this was in an age when no form of social democracy existed. Now there are many fallbacks (minimum wage? anti-discrimination laws? wellfair?) and unions are frequently used to bully management into agreements. Furthermore, the most powerful unions are the ones for people who need them the least - public service is strong, fast food workers don't exist.
So...are they a good/bad thing, have they outlived their usefulness, and are they still serving their original purpose? Discuss.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:03 pm
I think that workers reserve the right to band together to fight abuses of management. BUT, like management, they should be looked over, and corruption cannot be rampant, which is what you are kind of explaining. This is a little out of my depth, because I am still young, naive, and unemployed, but i think unions should still be allowed. Dividing and conquering is the easiest way to take over, and by de-unionizing, you hold the workers vulnerable to management.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:06 pm
I think the union is incredibly outdated. First of all there is no one protecting the workers from the union. The union goes pretty much unmonitored and workers are not given the right to choose to not have one. The union also has a tier system that caters to the rights and needs of over paid older workers and not the newer workers. Here in CA (where I live) there is an issue where the union allows management to not work employees full time to protect management from having to give health insurance.
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