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[QUOTE=know1;499179]What percentage of people in this state even work for unions? I'm not sure I know a single person who does.
I think it's better to be non-union with lower salaries than union and have your job shipped overseas since you are demanding wages too high to compete.[/QUOTE]
The company I work for had shipped a huge portion of their manufacturing to Mexico back in the mid to early 90's.
Within the last couple years the union through contract negotiations and getting us employes to agree to a competitive wage pay scale. The company has closed its Mexico operations and have moved everything back to the states.
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In 2011, the union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union--was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million, also showed little movement over the year. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.
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[QUOTE=Catfish Bob;499209]In 2011, the union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union--was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million, also showed little movement over the year. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.[/QUOTE]
So according to the original argument, 90% or so of people would be unaffected by KY becoming a right to work state (if we hold with the national average).
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[QUOTE=know1;499219]So according to the original argument, 90% or so of people would be unaffected by KY becoming a right to work state (if we hold with the national average).[/QUOTE]
BOOM...........
Facts..........you gotta love them.
Later,
Geo
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Been non-union all of my life and have done just fine, althought the road has been bumpy since 2007/2008, but I don't think a union membership could have changed any of that for me...except for they would have made up the difference in money that I recieved while unemployed...which reminds me again of yet another reason why I don't like unions....we can't afford them!
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[QUOTE=know1;499219]So according to the original argument, 90% or so of people would be unaffected by KY becoming a right to work state (if we hold with the national average).[/QUOTE]
I'm on the fence with the unions. Have been in 3 in my working life and currently in one. Have had about as many non union jobs as have had union.
The place I see the unions as the most important are in safety in dangerous working environments. Companies are always looking for ways to pinch out every penny of profit and when they try to compromise safety for production speed or whatever it may be that is when the union is best served to the worker.
When you work at a operation that employees over 4k people, a organized union is pretty much the only logical way to negotiate pay. How long and how much human resource money it cost to negotiate the pay of 4k people one at a time.
The black eye on the unions is that just like every other gosh darn organization in this nation, the people on the bottom of the pyramid are common God folk all trying to work together toward improvement everyday. While the people at the top of the pyramid are money greedy and shady often going against what the people on the bottom believe is best.
