Re: Question for you....raec123March 25 2011, 20:45:45 UTC
Ah, okay. Now I understand what you are basing your comments on. From your post, I was a bit confused since you were referencing fines, but I didn't get that from the Swirtwaist factory link
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Re: Question for you....raec123March 25 2011, 22:23:53 UTC
I'm in a love/hate relationship with Unions. I understand the need that existed that gave birth to the formation of unions. It was a true need. It was something that needed to be done to fix the greed of a time period that painted all businesses with the same brush of corruption, whether they treated their workers the same or not
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Re: Question for you....raec123March 25 2011, 22:24:22 UTC
Then you have the worker side of the equation. Someone wants to join a union to be able to work in those industries where the pay is higher and job security is stronger. They face their first obstacle in that only those who are in the union can get a union job. They go the union to try and become part of the union. You have to be working on a union job to become part of the union. Okay, that makes sense, but if by law you are only allowed to hire union workers and by union bylaws you can only be part of the union if you are working in that industry, how do you get a job? It's a Catch 22
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Re: Question for you....raec123March 26 2011, 03:36:37 UTC
This is the part where it gets tricky, that doesn’t know party affiliation and in that greed thrives. If, as an owner of business, I hire someone here illegally, I know three things. I know that the person will not quit because they need the job, that they are afraid of the law, and that I don’t have to pay them living wages. It’s probably a crap job, one that is hard to fill because of the nature of the work, and that people don’t look to closely at because people, on a whole, don’t notice it. It’s a cog in a wheel that turns. People don’t notice cogs. Only the wheels
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Re: Question for you....raec123March 26 2011, 03:39:08 UTC
The Unions don’t care because the jobs that these people fill are cogs, jobs that must be done, but no one wants. There is no aggrandizement in working in a trash dump, a sewer, cleaning up the crap of a society, only in the tragedy left behind
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Re: Question for you....raec123March 26 2011, 03:39:45 UTC
I want my government and the laws it creates to be within the guidelines of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I don’t want it to favor one part of its society over another, one color, one sex, one religion, or one culture. It does and it’s wrong. At times it favors one political party over another, one culture or religion, one sexual orientation or sex. The laws it designs to create fairness for all, abuse the many. It increases the gulf between rich and poor and teaches its constituents that it’s right to plod, follow, and not speak out. It rewards those that don’t rock the boat and blacklists those that try to change it. It’s crushing, bulky, and the costs are enormous in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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1) What fines?
2) I'm assuming that this post is because of news item that you saw or something you've read. Is there a link to this video or article?
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Fines are typically all that happens to companies that run sweatshops, if they stick around long enough to be fined.
Studies by the Labor Department in the mid-1990s found that 67 percent of garment factories in Los Angeles and 63 percent of those in New York violate minimum wage and overtime laws. Even worse, the study found that 98 percent of Los Angeles’ garment factories have workplace health and safety problems that could cause injuries or death.
If you'd like to learn more, just Google "sweatshop deaths." Unfortunately, there are a lot of hits.
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