I hate to tell you but unions are poison, not remedy, to workers.

You could not be more wrong. Not everyone is going to get out of the factory; societies need manual laborers, too, not just managers. That doesn't mean that workers should give up their rights to be fairly paid or to work in safe situations. Unions exist to be certain that workers are treated fairly, and given their government-mandated rights; too many workers don't understand their rights, or can't understand their rights due to lack of education...and the good ol' boy structure of many factory workplaces means that if you try to ask for your legal rights, you risk losing your job. Unions give the powerless a voice. Paying workers a decent wage isn't what caused the current economic crisis--that was caused by fat-cat CEOs raiding the company coffers for their own personal profit, not by giving longtime workers meager health benefits and cost-of-living increases. Nobody working in a factory or a mill expects it to be soft and cushy; they just expect that they have the right to be treated decently, and as more than just a means to fatten the CEOs bank account.

By the way, speaking of education and working your way up the "latter": your spelling is atrocious. You might look into a bit of education yourself, lest you find yourself stuck in minimum wage jobs that don't require any facility with text.

Nobody expected the work to be "soft and cushy". Yes, we have to do what we have to do to put food on the table, but that does not mean the conditions can be unhealthy and even dangerous just so the company can get the job done as cheaply as possible. The management was porrayed to be indifferent even to basic safety. Anyone working in those conditions need ear protection and breaks, because if you get tired, you might get careless and then cause injury to yourself and maybe even to the product or the equipment.

Euro4569, you don't seem to appreciate the history of the labor movement in this country.

Unions brought working Americans a living wage, weekends, the 40 hr work week, overtime pay, collective bargaining, health benifits, safety regulations, profit-sharing, retirement plans... the list goes on and on.

Were these things expensive? Did they cut into a company's profits? "You betcha!" (as Donald Rumsfeld would say). So, instead of OBSCENE profits, and the right to grind their employees up like so much cattle grain,company's had to settle for making REASONABLE profits and treating their employees like human beings.

You're a moron. You obviously have no sense of history, and probably side with management all the time....and I'm in "management".

As far as I'm concerned, everyone making less than 200K per year should unionize. You're an idiot if you think leaving up to the "people at the top", and leaving businesses completely unchecked in their work ethics, is going to do anything good for consumers.

Hey euro4569; ever hear of "Brown Lung?"

euro4569, read "The Jungle".

SEE "THE RAP CRITIC":
http://www.youtube.com/user/AndreJaxon

Sally Field is doing just fine. She's making millions selling bone-supplements at age 63.

But the factory is now located in Vietnam. The Americans who used to work there are destitute and dying while Sally rakes it in.

Think about it liberals.

Not only do you not know what you're talking about, you obviously don't know grammar. It's cost, not costed. There is no such word.

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