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I don't like your suggestion that the union should be disbanded. Union workers are safer than non-union workers, and the US needs safety right now. "This is the
by Gracana 9y ago
I don't like your suggestion that the union should be disbanded. Union workers are safer than non-union workers, and the US needs safety right now. "This is the third consecutive increase in annual workplace fatalities and the first time more than 5,000 fatalities have been recorded by the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) since 2008." https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf
- ameister14 9y agoI'm not sure how much you know about the relationship between Unions and city/state government in NY, but an example of the increased costs of such a relationship include the fact that unions outsource the jobs to non-union subcontractors and the city budget is $84 Billion, 10X that of Los Angeles.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Union workers are safer than non-union workers More accurately, unionized working relationships enforce safer working conditions (both by contracting for conditions better than the legal minimums and providing better avenues for addressing situations which don't meet the legal and contractual minimums) than non-unionized relationships.
- tooltalk 9y agoAmerica has been sending a lot of dangerous manufacturing jobs to oversea competitors for decades now. The data likewise show that about 2/3 of all occupational fatalities are caused by transportation incidents ("road incidents") or by "persons or animals," not by unsafe, dangerous working condition we often associate with industrial manufacturing (and already outsourced to poorer nations). I don't see why we need the union today -- especially when the NYC city transportation employees are known to earn more than $100K in wages alone.