Originally Posted by Naviator
(Post 2711355)
Is the information on that website incorrect? Or are we who are in some cases eligible for food stamps and Medicaid actually being forced to pay the 6 figure salaries of union fat cats that don’t do anything for us?
Are there inefficiencies in unions? Sure. Does this negate the overall good that union solidarity brings in terms of work rules, wages, etc.? Nope. Go back to when ALPA was started in the 30's and you'll see owners bent on pushing their pilots in unsafe ways for minimal pay. This is the constant tension between management and labor that is, at least, tempered by unionism. |
Originally Posted by Naviator
(Post 2711347)
So what if you’re both, as many of us probably are. Share holders aren’t just the Warren Buffet types you know. Your 401k probably has some AAG stock in it, which makes you an owner.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" Think of union/company balance as a pendulum. Unions were created when business owners had all the power. Everything tilted to them and labor was exploited. When unions were created the power started to shift. What we want is for the pendulum to be balanced. Take away one of the forces and the power shifts completely. There will be periods of time where the power shifts too much in one direction, but just imagine what would happen when one of those forces disappear. |
In a FREE economy (i.e. "capitalist"), elements of market forces (i.e. labor) are allowed to band together into "consortiums" to NEGOTIATE contracts governing how much compensation is owed for services rendered.
If you oppose the existence of worker unions, but are suspiciously content with the formation of corporate collective bargaining organizations (i.e. Regional Airline Association), you either don't know what you're talking about...or you're some kind of authoritarian monster. That's all there is to it. |
Originally Posted by Naviator
(Post 2711349)
SkyWest seems to do okay, better than us crontractually I believe.
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Originally Posted by JetDoc
(Post 2711510)
Skywest rides on the coat tails of the other union carriers, matching other carriers collectively bargained gains just enough to keep ALPA off the property. By the tone of your posts it seems you should have gone to work there.
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Originally Posted by Naviator
(Post 2711349)
SkyWest seems to do okay, better than us crontractually I believe.
Skywest, up until recently didn't have the best of anything, other than perhaps FA's. They are doing well now because the UNION represented airlines, Envoy being the exception, fought and won large gains. Skywest needed to put up or shut up else lose the stream of pilots they need. As another poster stated, the pendulum needs to be balanced, as to far to either side is bad. |
Originally Posted by DreadWing
(Post 2711499)
In a FREE economy (i.e. "capitalist"), elements of market forces (i.e. labor) are allowed to band together into "consortiums" to NEGOTIATE contracts governing how much compensation is owed for services rendered.
If you oppose the existence of worker unions, but are suspiciously content with the formation of corporate collective bargaining organizations (i.e. Regional Airline Association), you either don't know what you're talking about...or you're some kind of authoritarian monster. That's all there is to it. “Free economy (I.e. Capitalist)” That’s comedic gold right there. Capitalism is the most anti-free economy to have existed, and it perpetuates itself on a fairy tale believed by its victims. Just as the landlords sold the enclosure movement to the people as for their own good, the moneyed and connected classes have constructed a system of exclusion, all the while telling you “freedom”. Barriers to entry, government enforcement of protection schemes and a centralized fiat currency benefit one class of people, and it sure as shoot ain’t labor. Until wage slavery is ended and labor is free to compete on an open market to take its rightful place, unions are a necessary evil which only marginally rights the imbalance to labor that the capitalist structure has foisted upon it. |
Originally Posted by FollowMe
(Post 2711565)
Capitalism is the most anti-free economy to have existed, and it perpetuates itself on a fairy tale believed by its victims.
Corruptions like central banks, fiat currency, and corporatist elements within government aside (these are details that can be sorted intelligently), there is no CREDIBLE alternative that addresses the fundamental process of how resources/property are to be justly divided. There is simply no empirical EVIDENCE for your exotic claim that capitalist economies are the "most anti-free to have ever existed," I'm afraid. https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-li...jsp?title=2018 |
Originally Posted by FollowMe
(Post 2711565)
:D :D :D
“Free economy (I.e. Capitalist)” That’s comedic gold right there. Capitalism is the most anti-free economy to have existed, and it perpetuates itself on a fairy tale believed by its victims. Just as the landlords sold the enclosure movement to the people as for their own good, the moneyed and connected classes have constructed a system of exclusion, all the while telling you “freedom”. Barriers to entry, government enforcement of protection schemes and a centralized fiat currency benefit one class of people, and it sure as shoot ain’t labor. Until wage slavery is ended and labor is free to compete on an open market to take its rightful place, unions are a necessary evil which only marginally rights the imbalance to labor that the capitalist structure has foisted upon it. |
But who is John Galt?
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