TheMastersNemesis (6,081 posts) Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:53 AM
White Males Don't Get It /Their Future Is W/Democratic Party & Unions.
If white males had a lick of sense they would understand that being in a union, having a job with a social contract and being with Democrats is where their future lies. All this nonsense about minorities taking their jobs is a myth. What they fail to understand is that the power of the federal government through the Fair Labor Standards Act and the right to bargain is where they will have success. They ever will get anywhere with the GOP model.
TMN is living in the past, the 1950s and 1960s. Those lifelong, set-up-a-nest-in-the-factory-attic-'cause-I-can't-be-fired, union jobs have largely priced themselves out of the country or out of existence. And the trend looks bad for many/most of those yet remaining.
Painting with a somewhat broad brush, in the 1950s US factories were relatively new or updated - plant and equipment - and reasonably skilled labor plentiful. EuroLand and Japan had been devastated - factories and population - and painfully rebuilding. US companies could not locate operations offshore. Nor, OTOH, did they have much foreign competition. So they pretty much had to buy labor peace. Warpy has it pretty close as to timing, in the sense that things started going downhill for unions and heavily unionized companies in the mid-60s to mid-70s. Foreign competition was online - capacity and staffing - their workers were not arrogant and feather-bedded like many US union workers, and their quality was challenging US quality.
Libs' and Progs' attacks on American Auto and Steel companies (for example) came at the worst possible time, forcing companies to deal with regs written by activists (rather than people who understand and care about the industries being regulated) when the companies needed to devote resources to adjust to the world's changing industrial environment. Companies' money was dumped into complying regs that were designedly inflexible and punitive.
Speaking on a personal level, last spring my employer informed the people of my division that the division was being moved from the SF Peninsula city where it'd been since its founding in the 1930s, splitting operations between a facility in PA and a facility in Orange County, CA. The given reason was that the cost of housing in the SF Bay Area - a product of growth-limiting government, Enviro-@#$%, and NIMBY - made recruiting talent difficult. So I had a choice - move to SoCal or find a new job. I was offered a very hefty $$ incentive to stay until the move and then move to the facility in SoCal (1/2-3/4 of a year's salary!).
If I listed the reasons I chose not to move, the first would be not wanting to move to SoCal. The second reason on my list - this
does have a point - would be that the SoCal facility is unionized.
BS union work rules? Possibility of having to go on strike every time the contract is up for renewal? Possibility of having to strike in support some other union in or doing business in the facility? My pay and job security being based on seniority (and I would lose ~6 years seniority by moving)? Just! Hell!! NO!!!So I moved on rather than moving. My new job is the best I've had this century, probably since the late 80s or early 90s.
And it's non-union. IOW, exactly the kind of job TMN either believes doesn't exist or believes should not exist.
