Originally Posted by
Bzzt
I agree with most of your post other than that we are worth what we negotiate. In my opinion we are worth what supply and demand dictates. Unions are a relic of the industrial era and serve more to bleed their members of dues than anything else.
I do value the skills I've cultivated in this career path, that's why I refuse to be stuck somewhere that does not appreciate my abilities and I'll do anything I can to move on. I really do admire the altruistic ideal of "standing up for industry" and I wish you guys success but it's just not me.
How can you believe this? How do you think majors can have $200K+ pay scales and 17,000 applications at the same time? Do you think there are 17,000 doctors applying at any one hospital system? All you see on TV is fraud and corruption of unions and are thinking that they should no longer exist, and some shouldn’t. Man can corrupt anything even churches; that does not mean the system is a relic. The ONLY job security non-union workers have is to work for less than union scale. If you didn’t have a union you wouldn’t be getting the flow you desire you would just be getting the concessions. If you didn’t like it than you would be fired for flicking a burger in the wrong direction, and being employable nowhere with a big black mark on your record. You should take pride in paying your dues and use that opportunity to improve the things you don’t like. It seems the biggest consistency you have is you want an out, or to leave every time you don’t like something; you don’t want to put the gloves on and go to work. That is far more disrespectful to you than a mere “yes” vote.