Just a flippin minute

Posted by Dave from MN on February 15, 2009 at 07:06:23 from (96.24.108.212):

In Reply to: Re: OT: china junk posted by jack-iowa on February 15, 2009 at 06:27:02:

I am for American jobs. I am for American made products. I AM against ridiculous high profit margins and I am for profit sharing with ALL employees. I am also against unions that push their members to bleed their employers for those same ridiculous wages. A lot of union members seem to think that they need to have everything. If a company is paying a good wage, and good benefits, the employees should be happy with that, but no, many, not all , workers these days think they need full benefits, and a wage that allows them to buy everything and live like a rock star. Same goes for upper management. There should always be profit sharing, fairly. Excessive profits should always be utilized for the progression of the company and reserves for hard times. Not million dollar bonuses and $30-$50 an hour general laborers. Greed on both ends lead us to these issues. I used to have a huge salary, and very nice bonuses. I worked 12-14 hour days sometimes with 7 day weeks. Sometimes was in the plant for 24+ hours straight. I was happy for the raises and bonuses I got, but never demanded more. I also shared, I bought pizza for all my employees many times, many many times bought pop, and stuff like that to share with employees. No other managers there did that. Then when I would do this out of pocket, I still would hear from the "big shot" union people that my acts of employee appreciation were a slap in the face. I once bought all y dept's tootsie roll pops because it was Valentines day. Well the union stewards were "spreading the word" that I did it because they were all suckers. These were the STEWARDS that are supposed to work on good relations. I used to sit and listen to people complain every time we had to reduce workers or increase line rates to improve efficiency. Those same people would yell that they should be paid more every time we produced more, even after showing them raw material costs increases and foreign competition. They didn't get that a 2% profit margin for the owners was not good. It was always "what about me" with them. They were the rotten apples that would spoil the whole group. Complaining about wages, but driving new vehicles every year, at the bar every night, buying new homes, having full insurance. None of it was good enough. Sad part is that those few individuals are the ones that make the powers that be at corporate believe that the employee's at that plant didn't care about having a job, kinda shafting the majority of the employees that worked there. That plant is one of that corporation that hasn't moved to Mexico or China, but the union demands at the next contract may change that, and they will blame it all on the "company". I support American jobs, I support American rights, I buy American every chance I can, even at higher prices. I will not shop Walmart for this reason, but I stand firm on my belief that union greed and corporate greed are equally responsible for what has happened in this countries manufacturing sector. NAFTA didn't help, politicians didn't help, but if the people could just be able to be happy with modest life and income on both side, most of those people would probably still have that modest manufacturing job, with good benefits and little or no union dues. Instead they unemployed or working at a store that is selling a foreign product that not long ago was made by them. Don'T ever tell me I support the problem!

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