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You Don't Have Mail
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Competition: For the first time in its history, the U.S. Postal Service is considering layoffs. Imagine that — a unionized work force passing into obsolescence. read more
****Until a few years ago, the bulk of my husband's business was done by mail. Thanks to innovations he now can send music and tablature through the internet. If that had not happened, his business would have been driven into the ground by the rising costs of using the United States Postal Service.
****My business, however, still relies heavily on the USPS, and each year I have watched my revenues decline because the unionized workers at the post office demand higher and higher wages. When the postage becomes onerous, the customer can't buy the item. Simple!
****Any package I mail out that hits around the 6 lb mark automatically goes by way of FedEx to save my customers money, thereby increasing my ability to sell an item. So revenues at the Post Office continue to drop while postal workers continue to receive high wages and the security of never losing their jobs. The people that work at the post office are not "bad" people, but they are caught in a system that rewards you regardless of job performance.
****We have become a nation that rewards failure and poor performance. We start early with this concept. School children in the lower grades play games which have no winners or losers, and many high schools have 10 or 15 valedictorians. Unions perpetrate this myth by protecting its workers to the point where businesses are no longer profitable. Which takes us to the auto workers.
****If you want to know what's wrong with the auto industry, you need not look any further than the United Auto Workers. The "big three" want a bailout without the UAW making one teeny tiny concession concerning its workers, whose average salary is over $78.00 per hour including all their benefits. How much do you earn per hour?
****So what do I wake up to this morning? Presumptive President-Elect Barack Obama calling for tax-payer money to be used for an auto industry bailout. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't George W. Bush our President? This is just more "rewarding bad behavior." It's time for the UAW to be run out of town.
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E-mail from an auto industry worker
By Michelle Malkin • November 13, 2008
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3 comments:
Adrienne,
I thought that the right to unionize was a fundamental doctrine of Catholic social teaching? And in a free market system where workers are free to collectively bargain, doesn't it seem that the rights and interests of employers and employees will balance out at the end?
Joe - I believe the time for unions has come to an end. And I think you know how I feel about Catholic social teaching. Save my soul - I'll take care of my pocket book as best I can.
I really have to get cracking on my novel so here's a link to copy and paste which will save me a ton of time.
http://www.fordmuscle.com/blog/uaw-what-side-of-the-fence-are-you-on/112247
Joe --
Fundamental, and an old one at that. It is part of saving your soul.
The problems in the auto industry are not due to their being unionized, but to stupid management. I can say that because what is going on now with Detroit hit Toledo in the last depression. And after that is when the auto industry unionized.
In the 1920's Toledo was a major center for the production of autos and especially auto parts. But by the end of the depression most of that was gone, and the rest departed in the decade after WWII.
Problem is, for the last 40 years Americans have acted like a depression never could happen again. Generations grew up who did not remember the Great Depression. In so doing they forgot history and repeated the very same mistakes that preceded (and caused) the Great Depression.
One of the prime principles of psychiatry is that when you keep doing the same thing wrong, you will keep getting the same bad results. So watch.
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