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All of you make good points, but my point was that everyone wants to make a fair wage, and be able to do it in today economy, so if it takes a union to get that fair wage, then that's what the employers have brought on themselves, if left to their own devices, no one would get a fair wage, pension, healthcare, overtime, and so on.
When corporations take care of their own and treat them with dignity, unions aren't necessary, but all too often they have the Wall mart mentality when it comes to their employees. I just think labor get vilified all too often for the problems that corporations bring on themselves. Look in today's economy you would need to earn $70,000 a year to qualify for a $150,000 house, and where I live the average price of the medium home is $285,000 Now I think a living wage should be ware a couple can afford to buy a house and raise 2 kids, put them through collage and afford healthcare when and if needed, and not have to go into debt up to their eyeballs to get there.
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