Question:
Why does seen that those you are so against unions have no clue what happen in the pass.?
chris tanzu
2011-03-21 12:18:43 UTC
Why does seen that those you are so against unions have no clue what happen in the pass.


Why do think worker forma union

A to rip the governet off
B to give lazy people jobs.
C to be to install socialism

D because they where tired of getting killed
Two years later, when a fire started in a wicker wastebasket, many workers didn’t stand a chance: 146 died, most of them young Italian and Jewish women newly arrived in America; 17 were men. It was the worst disaster in New York City until 9/11.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on March 25, 1911, is a milestone in labor history that also marked the start of a progressive era in U.S. politics. Unions were ascendant; so was the idea that women should have the right to vote, and that all workers deserved the protection of a vigilant government that regulates how businesses operate.
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One hundred years later, the centennial of the tragedy is bittersweet. Today, only 7 percent of American workers in private industry belong to a union, and public employee unions are under siege. The worst conditions of the Triangle factory may no longer exist in the United States, but the lowest-skilled workers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, are still exploited, earning low pay in shabby sweatshops and factories. Overseas factories, where many American goods are produced, get away with hazardous conditions and poor compensation that would have been familiar to a Triangle worker 100 years ago.
Triangle exemplified the rapaciousness of the era: hundreds of workers sitting over sewing machines at narrow tables, new immigrants ripe for exploitation. Forget overtime. Short breaks were monitored. No talking or joking allowed to break the speed of production.
In addition to the locked doors, piles of flammable fabric scraps overflowed wastebaskets. The 1911 fire was ignited by a match or cigarette tossed carelessly amid the debris on the eighth floor, and spread rapidly through the open factory floors above it. It was a 10-story, fireproof building — it still stands today in the West Village, at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place — but inside were oil-stained floors and rooms crammed with machinery and wood tables set close together.
Four answers:
Uncle Pennybags
2011-03-21 12:23:42 UTC
First, let's remember today's controversy is over public employee unions. Your examples are all from private industry a century ago.



Look, Unions did good work in the first half of the 20th Century. They improved working conditions, safety, and got living wages for their workers. I doubt you'll find many folks complaining about this.



Then they started going too far, to the point of harming the companies that their members work for. Rigid work rules, keeping workers on payroll when no work for them, future benefits impossible to pay for, etc. It left those companies unable to adapt and bloated with expenses that changing business conditions couldn't afford.



But circling back to Public Employee Unions - Isn't gov't supposed to be looking out for the people? Isn't that why there are many thousands of safety and work regulations? So why the hell do public employees need a union? To protect them from the gov't being an abusive employer?
2011-03-21 19:23:36 UTC
What happened in the past..



And by that you are, of course, referring to the THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of documented cases of union murder, assault, corruption, vandalisim and threats our society has been forced to endure from the union thugs. Right?
Pfo
2011-03-21 19:21:31 UTC
Your grammar makes it impossible to understand what you're asking.
2011-03-21 19:19:55 UTC
tl;dr


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