Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Unions are down 50% from their highpoint in the 1950's, that's why wages for the middle class are declining ...except for unionized, tenured professors like Tuerck who make their living spouting free trade nonsense and union busting while they live the charmed life of a protected, non-free market union member...would anybody dare call this hyp......? The state police are the issue not unions...if unions are so strong why are they being decimated? Eh,tenured profs?
PRIVATE union membership is down; however, PUBLIC employee union membership is thriving. For example: in 2004, the federal employee earned $100,178 in wages and benefits. The comparable number for private workers: $51,876. All workers deserve and should thrive and do well. Public employee unions benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of us. Massachusetts is particularly egregious in this area. As long as parasites rule the roost, the roost, the parasite and the host are doomed.
Nice try, Boston Patriot! Not even close to being apples and oranges...if you must hate free market interventions please support Ron Paul's attempt to end the "independent" Federal Reserve Bank. I can hear the capitalists yelping now: "But, but my capital must be protected from inflation!" And as for protecting labor, Mr. FREEMARKET? "The free market is for thee but not for me."
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We saw all this before under Governor Weld. The only people more gutless than politicians are lawyers, and they are often one and the same.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
Worth reading. For you too Mr. X. Well, maybe you can have someone read it to you ;-)
Union membership is down for a variety of reasons we have discussed (and you have ignored) on this site before Mr. X. Partly because companies have gone out of business due to costs; partly because companies shift work to overseas markets or US markets with weaker unions....all to lower cost. You can't continue to give people all the benefits and raises they demand. The economy just can't bear the weight.
BP is correct X-man:
" The union membership rate for public sector workers (35.9 percent)was substantially higher than for private industry workers (7.5 percent).
Within the public sector, local government workers had the highest union membership rate, 41.8 percent. This group includes many workers in several heavily unionized occupations, such as teachers, police officers, and fire fighters."
Where else can you get a 5-6% raise built in every year regardless of performance?
"Most companies (non-union) have a market based system that compensates according to a worker's value in the marketplace. Public Sector unions distort value in the marketplace and use a socialist equity model that attempts to reward all members equally for what is obviously un-equal performance."
Here's the real problem. Every candidate wants the police endorsements, because the candidate can say he is "tough" on crime while the opponent is "soft." This can happen even if the basis for endorsements (or the endorsements of opponents) is based on on economics. In addition, cops have the ability to bury or leak potentially embarassing episodes.
I am disappointed they were not able to make any progress on this issue.
