tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post874414966138534782..comments2023-07-12T08:43:09.158-04:00Comments on roman's musings: Unions? Are they outdated?romanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988548647887978919noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post-19450616978319786522011-07-30T00:02:55.533-04:002011-07-30T00:02:55.533-04:00Nobody has less freedom of speech in America, than...Nobody has less freedom of speech in America, than unionists.<br /><br />Two people can be picketing a store, calling for a boycott for selling items made with sweat shop labor. One is a unionist, the other not. Legally the unionist can be arrested.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post-86141422379517744412011-04-30T00:22:21.311-04:002011-04-30T00:22:21.311-04:00Marx had a concept called complex labor. Unskille...Marx had a concept called complex labor. Unskilled labor is called simple, and skilled is called complex. He believed society has a bigger stake in complex labor, and should be paid more.<br /><br />Public workers have higher education, than the population as a whole. They perform complex labor.<br /><br />Overall pay is better in the private sector.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post-21593077090501380672011-03-04T22:13:06.089-05:002011-03-04T22:13:06.089-05:00Walker never ran on a platform of destroying colle...Walker never ran on a platform of destroying collective bargaining. His popularity is so low, that latest word is four Republicans are distancing themselves. He is down ten points with Republicans in Wisconsin.<br /><br />Walker gave new life to the unions. <br /><br /><i>"A public union employee, a Tea Party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the Tea Partier and says, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.''</i>Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post-80405094250721197862011-03-02T15:04:27.756-05:002011-03-02T15:04:27.756-05:00Ren,
Public workers enjoy a much more lucrative P...Ren,<br /><br />Public workers enjoy a much more lucrative PACKAGE when combining their benefits with their wages. <br />Also, I'm not sure I have seen any stats to support that public sector employees are higher educated. I think this might be a statistical oddity at best when taking into account the size of each population.<br />Even if this is the case, education does not guarantee quality of service, competency and productivity. All factors that public sector unions are seldom to pay any attention to. Check the stats on how many public union employees were fired for non-performance and compare that to the private sector. <br />Gov Walker represents his constituents, the people that elected him. If he busts the public sector unions, these same constituent voters can vote him out and restart the corrupt cycle of "quid pro quo" between unions and politicians all over again. Somehow, I believe that to be a very unlikely scenario.<br />Ren, the tide is turning away from the liberal tax and spend policies of the past. This country just cannot afford it any longer. The so-called good times are over and the general public is demanding more oversight as to how their tax dollars are being spent!romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15988548647887978919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17868404.post-43835843391566731322011-03-02T00:04:11.643-05:002011-03-02T00:04:11.643-05:00As a whole, public workers make less money than th...As a whole, public workers make less money than their equivalents in the private sector.<br /><br />Marx invented a concept called simple and complex labor. Simple labor is unskilled, and complex is skilled. Marx believed because society as a whole invests more in the education of those who do complex work, they should be paid more. Public workers have higher amounts of education, than those in public doing the same job. <br /><br />Governor Scott Walker has a history of union busting. He admitted to being a union buster during the prank call.<br /><br />Capitalism thrived in the 1950-60s. The US wasn't touched by WWII. It had the European markets.<br /><br />The fall of Stalinism and China turning capitalist, opened new markets.<br /><br />There are no new markets, so profit is even squeezed from public workers.<br /><br />Walker's vision is that only corporate profits matter. No social services, taxes or regulation to business. He'd turn the whole country into old Mississippi.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.com