FishStix: “A business man can’t be so cruel and stay in business. I think he’s a union thug in the making!”
He can’t stay in business treating his customers like this, but treating his employees like this sure helps the bottom line!
“You don’t want to work unpaid overtime? Then I’ll hire someone who does.”
“You want heath insurance? You’re lucky you have a job.”
“You’ve been here 20 years and you want a raise? Then how could I afford my bonus?”
“Christmas comes only once a year? That’s a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December!”
”Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
I’ve had both good bosses and bad bosses. I’ve never been a union member, but I know people who are.
Good bosses are concerned with quality products and services, and so are good employees. Good bosses take care to provide their employees with decent wages, safe working conditions, and job security.
Not all bosses are good bosses. Good bosses are not necessarily more profitable than bad bosses.
Look into industrial working conditions in the pre-union era. Minimum wage laws, the 40-hour work week, workplace safety standards (including compensation for workplace injuries), pension security, safety from capricious firing,… These are all things that were brought about, directly or indirectly, because Labor got Organized. All were vehemently opposed by Capital.
I don’t believe that every job sector needs to be unionized, and I know that some unions have histories of corruption. But the idea that Labor reserves the right to protect itself from the abuses of Management is one that I strongly endorse. If the unions disappeared tomorrow, they’d be needed again next week.
The need for unions is less now because there are now laws which protect workers’ rights. Those laws were passed at the insistence of the Labor movement.
As you say, people have the choice to unionize or not unionize. If the majority choose not to, why are you so afraid of those that do?
The cartoon above has absolutely nothing to do with unions or labor or business or politics. It’s about someone pressing their advantage over someone else in trouble. It’s a universal predicament, rising from the worst of human nature, and hardly the exclusive property of Labor/Management relations (and neither side of that question is innocent of the tactic). If this were one of McCoy Sr.’s editorial cartoons, and Santa had a label saying “Struggling Small Business” and the kid had a label reading “Strongarm Union Boss”, then your first raising of the subject might have had a context. As it is, though, your crack about “union thugs” was as predictable, paranoid, and out of place as another (here unnamed) poster’s habitual rantings about “feminized America”.
Flintstoned almost 15 years ago
The barter system.
Colt9033 almost 15 years ago
Sounds like a future kid with life time of coal in their future.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
FishStix: “A business man can’t be so cruel and stay in business. I think he’s a union thug in the making!”
He can’t stay in business treating his customers like this, but treating his employees like this sure helps the bottom line!
“You don’t want to work unpaid overtime? Then I’ll hire someone who does.”
“You want heath insurance? You’re lucky you have a job.”
“You’ve been here 20 years and you want a raise? Then how could I afford my bonus?”
“Christmas comes only once a year? That’s a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December!”
”Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Plods with ...™ almost 15 years ago
I’m thinking politician
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I’ve had both good bosses and bad bosses. I’ve never been a union member, but I know people who are.
Good bosses are concerned with quality products and services, and so are good employees. Good bosses take care to provide their employees with decent wages, safe working conditions, and job security.
Not all bosses are good bosses. Good bosses are not necessarily more profitable than bad bosses.
Look into industrial working conditions in the pre-union era. Minimum wage laws, the 40-hour work week, workplace safety standards (including compensation for workplace injuries), pension security, safety from capricious firing,… These are all things that were brought about, directly or indirectly, because Labor got Organized. All were vehemently opposed by Capital.
I don’t believe that every job sector needs to be unionized, and I know that some unions have histories of corruption. But the idea that Labor reserves the right to protect itself from the abuses of Management is one that I strongly endorse. If the unions disappeared tomorrow, they’d be needed again next week.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
The need for unions is less now because there are now laws which protect workers’ rights. Those laws were passed at the insistence of the Labor movement.
As you say, people have the choice to unionize or not unionize. If the majority choose not to, why are you so afraid of those that do?
The cartoon above has absolutely nothing to do with unions or labor or business or politics. It’s about someone pressing their advantage over someone else in trouble. It’s a universal predicament, rising from the worst of human nature, and hardly the exclusive property of Labor/Management relations (and neither side of that question is innocent of the tactic). If this were one of McCoy Sr.’s editorial cartoons, and Santa had a label saying “Struggling Small Business” and the kid had a label reading “Strongarm Union Boss”, then your first raising of the subject might have had a context. As it is, though, your crack about “union thugs” was as predictable, paranoid, and out of place as another (here unnamed) poster’s habitual rantings about “feminized America”.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
You are free to comment whatever you like, the same as I am free to call you on your claptrap.
Merry Christmas!