Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
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Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
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Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
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Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#3I remember "turn out day," where all the recently turned out [apprenticeship graduates] become journeymen. You start noticing all the new trucks your idiot co-workers are financing, and wonder how much better it'll be once you've turned out.
At least in my union experience, the greatest "cost savings" that most families have is that our health insurance premiums cost exactly the same whether a single male, or married father to dozens. Collective bargaining has some of its greatest strengths for Joe D. Everyman.
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#4At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#5This is basic economics.
The rise of income and wealth inequality is directly tied to the weakening of collective bargaining, corporate consolidation and globalization.
Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions....
Unionized workers are the only real backstop against corporate interests.
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#6At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
> At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
Corporate profits are unpaid wages. Non union workers can organize, it is a choice. Otherwise, continue being economically impaired by corporate shareholder and management actors on your own time. If you don’t organize against corporations, they would extract until there is nothing left (broadly speaking, some companies don’t embody this ethos, but many do).
Union support is highest amongst Gen Z, so you’re just waiting for older conservatives and anti union folks to age out for the pendulum to swing back from the damage Reagan did. 1.8M voters age 55+ age out every year, half of those folks are still in labor force participation, while 4M voters turn 18 ever year. It’s a demographics and electorate turnover story more than anything (trajectory + time horizon).
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/03/gen-z-is-the-most-pro... (“Marketplace: Gen Z is the most pro-union generation”)
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#7At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
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Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#8This is basic economics. The rise of income and wealth inequality is directly tied to the weakening of collective bargaining, corporate consolidation and globalization. Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions... . Unionized workers are the only real backstop against corporate interests.
Cool. How do I start a unionize my family and how do I get my wife on board.
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#9At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
Unions: join us, let's increase our bargaining power together and improve all our economic situations.
Anti-union workers: No.
Also anti-union workers: Look at these union workers making more money than us, at our expense.
Re: Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families
#10This is basic economics. The rise of income and wealth inequality is directly tied to the weakening of collective bargaining, corporate consolidation and globalization. Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions... . Unionized workers are the only real backstop against corporate interests.
Cool. How do I start a unionize my family and how do I get my wife on board.
Watch out, I would try to union bust all teenagers. I guess it might be ok since parents have seniority.