General Electric is a Union Corporation, and they do pretty well.

[pwb]

Even the person sweeping the floor at G.E. makes a living wage. I can think of many other companies that are union that do well, Most defense contractors are union, so what is the problem..? How do unions hurt a company or government. A fair days work for a fair days pay seems reasonable to me.

[liberal N proud]

1. I am sure they think they would do better if the reaming US jobs were non-union

They have sent so many overseas already and would like to pay the same kind of wages to the US workers as they do overseas.

[sufrommich]

2. GE is a perfect example of a large corporation being union.

The best thing that could happen to this country is more and more union representation in the private sector.

[jp11]

3. When someone highup wants to make the company record profits

by slashing jobs/outsourcing or cutting wages, pensions, benefits etc a Union gets in the way.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Here's breaking news for conservatives.

Every global manufacturer is unionized. Republicans try to chastise American car companies by blaming their woes on a union workforce while holding up their "non union" Japanese counterparts as having an edge in employment costs.

Here's the news: Every car built in Japan is built by union laborers working for a living wage. In fact, there are over 15,000 labor unions in that country. Every BMW, Mercedes, Lotus, Fiat, Volvo, Saab, and Kia are built with a unionized workforce in their home countries. Every single car built in Canada has the endorsement of the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers), and show a profit for the parent company.

Only those cars built by slave labor in third world plants are non union. The plants built here in the American South are non-union only to avoid health care costs demanded by the UAW. Wages and non-health benefits are competitive with UAW contracts. When, or if, conservatives defeat the labor unions this pay scale at non-union plants will end, and we can join the ranks as another third world workforce.

Conservatives are striving to make America the largest third world country, where labor begs for a job in an "if you don't work, you don't eat" scenario. They long for a return to the day when men stood on the sidewalk and offered a shoe shine for a quarter and the ultimate indignity was standing in a soup line to fill a growling belly left from a day of fruitless job searching. They love that an employer can end his sentences with "you're lucky to have this job".

I think the reason hourly workers, or what I call "Barstool Republicans" fight for this nostalgia is that they believe their job is secure, and if they can see more people suffering they feel more middle class.