"Tina" wrote in message
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Matt, you may not understand labor laws very well.

Oh, I suppose having over 1,000 people worl for me last year, I guess I
understand them well enough.

The US branches of
Honda et al can work at keeping unions out, but they cannot by dictate
keep them out.

They can refuse to recognize (or whatever the legal term is) them.


And if you choose to interview street picks instead of an enriched
pool of potential employees, you must be doing something else very
right because your HR folks are wasting time and resources..

English your first language?


On Nov 28, 10:23 pm, "Matt W. Barrow"
wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in
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On Nov 27, 9:47 pm, "Maxwell" wrote:
"Matt W. Barrow" wrote in
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Question: what laws would continue to exist if unions went away
and what laws would go away?

And which would have evolved naturally with increased productivity
and
increased expertise in management (that had been going on for a
couple
hundred years). That's out of Baum's mental grasp, unfortunately.
--

Funny thing is, you are all right. Everything mentioned here both pro
and
con has contributed to the wages paid in this country today for most
every
job. Child labor laws, health care benefits, 40 Hour work weeks,
severance,
paid vacation, benefits packages, retirement, overtime pay, minimum
wage,
etc, etc. It's all had a balancing effect on the wages we all draw
every
day. Without unions we would all be working for less, no matter what
our
profession.

Without unions we'd all be working for more. Wages are, like any other
economic good, based on supply and demand. What unions do is shift the
wages
from one industry to another. In that case, somethign has to give. The
only
thing that can raise wages in improved productivity and union have been
instrumental in trashing productivity. In the long run, unions have
probably done more to depress wages and ruin their industries. As such I
haven't an ounce of sympathy for them and their thug cohorts.



None of my people are under a collective bargaining agreement. There
are business reasons to provide compensation packages that are
attractive to gain and retain employees. There are business reasons to
maintain productivity. However, there is not one person here would
believes his job would be subsidized if we no longer had customers. If
anyones (including my) position no longer makes business sense it will
be elimiated. That's what makes an economy efficient and maximizes
return to investors. If you don't like it you should work for the
gov't.

Interestingly, American based branches like Honda and Toyota do not allow
unions and their employees are at the top in terms of production and
compensation and their futures look bright compared to GM, Ford and
Chrysler
who are at death's door.

--
Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
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