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Unsaved Trash
Actually, you are incorrect. The Walmart types of businesses are what is killing this country. They don't pay a living wage and with unemployment as it is, we have to supplement the workers with food stamps, we pay for their healthcare because these businesses are too cheap to do so, they have no retirement program, and that is what is killing the country. People are forced to work for these low paying jobs because there isn't anything else left. It's pathetic. And add to the fact that this country doesn't put a limit on imports from China and other countries that don't pay ****, don't care about their own people, and put out a bunch of pure crap, THAT is another problem. What it all boils down to isn't the unions, it's the United States government. They aren't doing their job.
I can remember my oldest son once asked me while in grade school exactly what the government was. I said it was of the people and by the people. What a load that is now. It's all about greed. I for one have taken a stand and refuse to shop at Walmart and stores that are not union represented when there is an alternative. Fortunately here in So.Cal., there are a lot of union stores. That is where you will find me and the people that really care. I'm supporting the companies that choose to pay their employees a living wage. And for the record, I have never purchased a foreign owned automobile company's car and likely never will.
Furthermore, a few years back the major supermarket chains here would not negotiate a fair contract with the union. The strike lasted for months on end. It took nearly 2 years for the supermarkets to regain the business they lost from the consumer. These consumers went to Costco, independent grocers, etc. And the end result? Our groceries are no more expensive here than in most parts of the country that are not union represented. Kroger pays checkers over $20 per hour here with full benefits. In non-represented states, the pay is slightly over minimum wage, no benefits and the food prices are nearly identical if not more. Sorry, but your argument is shot.