Union Perspectives

Minimum Wage for temp agencies should be $19-$20 per hour. The minimum wage should be at least $ 15 per hour and if the companies keep workers’ jobs at part time to get around paying benefits then the minimum wage for those jobs should be $19-$20 per hour. Maybe the companies would see that hiring workers part time is not paying off for them. More wage slaves would get more full-time jobs with benefits. This would be very good for our consumer-driven economy. For the wage slaves make the more they spend, which then the workers have to make more products to for wage slaves to buy, which means there will be more taxes paid and less government assistance needed. An NLRB judge once said in rendering a decision, “Wages can be increased without increases in prices. Increased production must be supported by increased consumption, which is possible through increased wages.” He also said, “Unions should not be tricked into a position where it would appear that the wage increases are in direct ...

We need a 35-hour work week and get rid of the temporary jobs. These types of jobs exploit the work force by not paying good wages, health insurance or pensions. This means that the workers with good wages and benefits must subsidize the Walmart-type workers, and the large box stores get a free ride off the backs of taxpayers. The people who hire temp workers get the same free ride. If the government set the rules so unions could organize retail workers, which would put them on par with the union retail and food stores we would have a much better economy. The stores, which are union, have an unfair fight when trying to compete with stores like Walmart, and it is all on the workers’ backs to stop these unfair practices. We need all retail stores with a work force of 20 or more employees to be unionized and not be bale to take advantage of the 19-20 hour work week. One way to do this is to have all retail workers be in a retail union so if they have to work two or three jobs the time wo...