Henery Ford started the 40 hour work week long before the UAW was around. He did so believing that it would reduce turn over in his work force and absenteeism. He also paid better thinking that workers should be able to afford to purchase what they were making.
Today with people wanting more for less unions wages make things more expensive. So those jobs move offshore and jobs are lost. You can't make a person buy things at an inflated price. Those people "working in slave like conditions" for pennies an hour would die if most Americans didn't want cheap products! I love it when pro union folks start tossing that "slave like conditions" line out there. Most just don't understand what some of those 3rd world countries are like. Now don't get me wrong. I like to buy American made products. But every time I buy something from one of those items from a 3rd world country I'm keeping a kid alive even if that kid has to work 60 hours a week in poor conditions.
I know a lot of people who were raised by parents in good conditions who were not union employees. I also know a lot of people who have decent retirements without the union too. But those union bennies come at a price. Over 30% of the cost of a new car is current wages and bennies to workers. Another 30% goes to retired workers. Because of this companies have put in robotics to replace workers and moved some of the process off shore. So again the union has sent jobs off shore. Good job there unions......taking care of the workers so that they too can file for unemployment.
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