Add your comments
Not already registered?
Then click Here.
Comment policy:
JG-TC.com encourages readers to engage in civil conversation with their neighbors. Comments that are submitted are not posted to the site immediately. They go into a queue to be moderated and may take several hours to be reviewed. Comments posted on Saturday may not be reviewed until Sunday afternoon.
In order to keep the page a set width, long lines (mostly long links) will be chopped. Try putting spaces in your links or consider using tinyurl.com to make a smaller link that you can include.
We will never edit or alter your comments, but we do reserve the right to remove comments that violate our code of conduct.
No comment may contain:
* Potentially libelous statements; such as accusing somebody of a crime, defamation of character, or statements that can harm somebody's reputation.
* Obscene, explicit, or racist language.
* Personal attacks, insults, threats, harassment or inciting violence.
* Commercial product promotions.
If you have any questions, please contact our moderator.
Tom Andres wrote on May 14, 2009 1:36 PM:
The reason unionized labor is shrinking in the private sector is because union negotiators seldom bring anything of value to the table except demands against the employer for higher employment costs.
Let's say a supply company submits a bid for standard grade raw materials at a higher price than its competitor. Would anyone expect management to buy the higher-priced materials? Of course not.
I hate to say it, but just like raw materials, labor is a commodity. The day union leadership offers a more productive work force, and disciplines itself to guarantee it, management will buy it hook line and sinker. "