Big Unions Vs. Big Business
02 Feb 2010 | Category: uncategorized | Author: admin
Many Industry analysts who study the on-going push-pull between Multi-National Conglomerates and their Labor Unions understand the history behind organized labor. Many believe that in the 1930's that labor unions were needed and until up into the 1970's most everything was unionized especially on the East Coast.
In looking at the unions in the 1980s and 1990s we see how Unions hampered companies and thus made them un-competitive. This caused companies to reduce in size, which meant they needed fewer workers, the exact opposite of what the Unions had wished for.
One intellectual recently stated on this issue; "I still believe something has to be done about the unions, if you could trust corporate America to do the right thing by their employees I'd say unions be damned. But who would monitor corporate America?"
This is an interesting comment in that Corporate America is so utterly over regulated and must defend itself from a barrage of attacks from things like Sarbaines Oxley and the political exploits of folks like Elliot Spitzer. So many still blame Corporate America and side with the Unions. Others believe the Unions have served their useful life in Free-Enterprise.
Indeed, it does not matter who started it, there is a divide there. And labor currently has some leverage with unemployment so low, but they exercise their leverage in vindictive and underhanded ways and use government to attack businesses. No one wins. It is like cutting off the hand that feeds you to the benefit of those who off shore jobs or foreign competition.
We need to get Corporate America and Union Labor on the same page without attacking if our modern companies are to compete. Corruption is unfortunate on either side. Executive Management or Labor Unions, the bigger issue is the ethics in the US. And when we attack each other the team scores less home runs and the fans get rather disenchanted. It is time to bury the hatchet and resolve to work together. Consider this in 2006.
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