Comment Re:Microsoft needs to be banned from preinstalling (Score 1) 1995
That view is simply one of the most laughable ever. What do you think things would be like *without* the unions?
Here's a though that should provide an answer; bosses will never cut into their profits by paying a living wage if they don't have to. The self-interest that conservatives think makes the market so wonderful dictates that. That's one of the base features of capitalism.
Workers have to take concessions from the bosses via organized mass movements, and Unions are a powerful, and nessecary, tool of that struggle. Easy historical evidence of this is available; look up the Ludlow Massacre, the Teamster Rebellion of Minneapolis, or any one of the dozens of labor struggles in the depression-era U.S.
Hell, before that, the bosses profitted by exploiting the labor of *slaves* until they were forced to stop.
Here's a though that should provide an answer; bosses will never cut into their profits by paying a living wage if they don't have to. The self-interest that conservatives think makes the market so wonderful dictates that. That's one of the base features of capitalism.
Workers have to take concessions from the bosses via organized mass movements, and Unions are a powerful, and nessecary, tool of that struggle. Easy historical evidence of this is available; look up the Ludlow Massacre, the Teamster Rebellion of Minneapolis, or any one of the dozens of labor struggles in the depression-era U.S.
Hell, before that, the bosses profitted by exploiting the labor of *slaves* until they were forced to stop.
