To the person who told me to go find a new job if I’m so unhappy- thank you.
I just got hired with another manufacturing company in the area for a 53% pay increase. Benefits are extremely comparable.
Thank you again for the advice.
If no one wants to unionize, just leave. People will pay you what you’re worth.
You're welcome, congratulations 👏🎉
@2ofq+1uWV4KJKif you really think that people don't get something when its simplified? Wow shows your education and explains why you're in HR. Got to make everything sound more complicated then they really are. Guess your as useless as the engineers and managers that you keep around. The exact same ones who believe that we are all just d-mb and don't understand. When clearly someone that wasn't in HR, expressed and showed how they understand a more complex understanding of economics.
Maybe @2ofq+1uWV4KJK, you don't really understand economics.
You can completely disregard that individuals opinion. They lack any depth of understanding of the complexity of a globalized economy. They're either ignorant of economic forces or they're a paid shill to sew discord into the narrative. I would love for the world to be black and white. It would be far less scary, less stressful and easier to understand, but it's not. If you're being actually genuine in your beliefs, you need to do a serious amount of homework before you can even begin to understand how JUST unions effect labor markets domestically and over seas. Please, for your own knowledge and understanding pick up a few books or something.
Can you really not work with more than one thought in that head of yours?
It has to be simplified, or you wouldn’t understand, but then again, you still don’t understand the simplified view. 🤷♂️
To refute the argument that unions are solely responsible for the decline in employment in industries like steel and automotive, it’s important to acknowledge that a variety of complex factors have contributed to this trend over the past 50 years, many of which are independent of union activities.
• One of the major reasons for the decline in employment in both the steel and auto industries is automation and the adoption of more efficient technologies. Automation has drastically reduced the need for manual labor by increasing production efficiency with fewer workers.
• According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, automation has contributed significantly to job losses in manufacturing, including auto and steel, as machines have taken over tasks that were once performed by human workers . This phenomenon is industry-wide and not caused by unionization, as it affects union and non-union workers alike.
• Globalization has led to increased competition from foreign producers, particularly in countries with lower labor costs. U.S. manufacturers, including those in steel and automotive industries, have shifted production overseas or faced pressure from cheaper imports, which has contributed to job losses.
• A 2012 report by the Economic Policy Institute highlights that trade imbalances and offshoring have displaced millions of manufacturing jobs, especially in industries like steel and automotive . These shifts are driven by global market forces, not union activity.
• Corporate strategies, such as cost-cutting measures, layoffs, and plant closures, often result from broader economic pressures, like the need to remain competitive in global markets. For instance, many companies moved production to regions with lower wages and fewer regulations, irrespective of unionization.
• The decline in unionized jobs in these sectors aligns with a broader trend of corporate restructuring and deregulation of labor protections, which cannot be solely blamed on unions. In fact, many argue that unions have fought to preserve jobs that would otherwise have been lost even sooner due to these forces.
While unions have undoubtedly had an impact on labor negotiations, the decline in employment in industries like steel and automotive is largely due to technological change, globalization, and corporate decisions unrelated to union activity. Suggesting that unions are the sole or even primary cause oversimplifies the issue and ignores these significant contributing factors.
Whatever trend in employment you’re trying to ascribe to unions have about 3 million other variables that make a he-l of a lot more sense than unions.
I only feel the need to be blunt because you have been with me- that’s an overly simplistic, one sided view.
Tell that to the steel and auto workers: went from employing hundreds of thousands, per segment, to tens of thousands in 50 years.
Look beyond your perceived timeline to see trends.
Now we have no reason to see you come on here and whine about GF, anymore, since you have finally started taking control of your own life. Congratulations on becoming an adult.
Congrats!