Sick of the anti union propaganda

You republicans on this website are some of the greediest scum I can imagine. Your businesses go down in flames, and I hope you end up homeless like your workers whom you depraved.

Educate yourselves.

You're jealous of my Cadillac insurance that I pay nothing for. Legal insurance. 2.5 years disability insurance. My 3 weeks of paid vacation (8 weeks for 25 years). My job security. Not loosing my job for refusing to be worked like a slave. Being able to tell my boss to fuck off. Grieving supervisors for working and getting paid double for the time they were working. Coming into work high and the punishment is you get sent home if it's to the point you can't do your job safely. Oh by the way I get this all working part-time with $1.25 wage increase a year. Overtime is after 5 hours.



[link to www.epi.org]

Between 1973 and 2011, the median worker’s real hourly compensation (which includes wages and benefits) rose just 10.7 percent. Most of this growth occurred in the late 1990s wage boom, and once the boom subsided by 2002 and 2003, real wages and compen­sation stagnated for most workers—college graduates and high school graduates alike. This has made the last decade a “lost decade” for wage growth. The last decade has also been characterized by increased wage inequality between workers at the top and those at the middle, and by the continued divergence between overall productivity and the wages or compensation of the typical worker.

A major factor driving these trends has been the ongoing erosion of unionization and the declining bargaining power of unions, along with the weakened ability of unions to set norms or labor standards that raise the wages of comparable nonunion workers. This preview of the forthcoming The State of Working America, 12th Edition presents a detailed analysis of the impact of unionization on wages and benefits and on wage inequality.