I wonder if Congress and the Senate would unionize if their salaries were busted down...

Union Yes

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Sat May-08-10 09:17 AM
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I wonder if Congress and the Senate would unionize if their salaries were busted down...

to the level of the Walmart wage?

If they weren't allowed to vote for their own pay raises.

I'd like to see them live on minimum wage.

Let those those who champion wage-slavery live on that actual wage.

Yes, this op is hypothetical and filled with hyperbole.

But..

If elected officials could spend a few months in our shoes, bills like Employee Free Choice Act would be law by now.

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hobbit709

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Sat May-08-10 09:19 AM
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1. Better yet, pay them piecework

No legislation, no pay.

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Union Yes

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Sat May-08-10 09:35 AM
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2. Me likey your idea!

:fistbump:

:hi:

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Union Yes

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Sat May-08-10 11:55 AM
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3. kick

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NNN0LHI

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Sat May-08-10 12:23 PM
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4. UAW has spent a lot of time and money trying to unionize import car companies here

The workers at most of these plants had the chance to become unionized and the majority of them still voted to decline union representation and to continue scabbing off of other American union workers.

Congress and the Senate didn't have anything to do with that. And the Employee Free Choice Act would not have mattered.

Don

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Union Yes

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Sat May-08-10 12:39 PM
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5. Let them vote with card-check authorization. I bet a different outcome would result. nt

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NNN0LHI

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Sat May-08-10 12:44 PM
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6. All card-check does is give workers the chance to vote for or against union representation

These plants had a chance to vote. The majority declined union representation when they voted. Card-check was meaningless in these instances.

Don

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Sat May-08-10 12:54 PM
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7. The great majority of them spend far more getting elected than they ever make in pay

Not to mention that almost all of them are wealthy anyway, poor people seldom get elected.

It's not about the money, it's about the power.

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