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Ridiculous ,all financed through junk bonds Lowe's sold to investors.
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If UPS can pay their drivers 170k a year in total compensation for delivering packages, we can get paid that too. The reason they get that pay is because they have a union, they have no special skill. All of this talk that unions are fine for other industries but not retail is talk by corporate drones.
The previous poster is correct--unionization would solve some things, but create also create more problems. Besides, the proponents of unionization will never get a majority of the store workforce company wide to embrace a union because many employees simply don't want the hassles that come with a union. IF being in a union is something you really want, that's ok--but you need to go work in an industry or shop where unions are more favorably viewed by their workforce and where management is more cooperative, like UPS, the Big Three auto maker plants in Michigan and their spin-off plants that are unionized, or a government job. You're wasting your time in retail and you're just going to be increasingly frustrated. The workforce in retail is too transitory and does not lend itself to easy unionization.
These problems are in place because they have been created intentionally. They will not be fixed with unionization, however. This is a trap. Until you understand human nature you will never understand why things are the way they are. Some problems are not solveable…because tptb don’t want them solved! And our problems as a civilization are WAY BIGGER than this issue…it’s like addressing a bee sting while you’re dying of cancer.