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Originally Posted by dawgs77

WHOA!!! I'm a Union man and I think your comments are very Ill informed. Dinosaurs...feeding off the general public...... The Teamsters negotiates CBA's that include wages and benefits that well surpass that of non-union companies. Wal-Mart type companies are the ones that feeds themselves off the public killing private ownerships in the process. I can continue for pages....

Unions served their purpose back in the mid 1900s and ever through the 70s, when workers' rights were nonexistent. Since companies realized that they worked more efficiently when their employees WANTED to come to work and enjoyed their job, unions didn't have to fight for working condition improvements. Instead they turned to ever-increasing hourly rates and outrageous benefits and vacation times. Why? The union exists for itself, NOT the company. To be keep in office, union leaders have to constantly feed their baby. If they don't do a good job, someone else will try to get an easy-street union leadership job by promising even better wages and benefits.

I liken this scenerio to a tapeworm. A tapeworm establishes itself in the digestive system of its victim; feeding off the victims meals, or $ if you would. As the months and years go by, the tapeworm gets larger as grows like a cancer as its victim grows skinny and weak. Finally, the victim is too weak to keep up with its peers and falls prey to another beast looking for an easy meal.

Chrysler was gobbled-up by benz, but GM and eventually Ford will probably just die. Until the unions learn to live in harmony with their host, their fate is marked as such.