Ted Rall: Unions’ Many Mistakes and Opportunities to Mend
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During the 1980s unions forgot what they were and who they represented. They abandoned their traditional oppositionalism to management .. Unions took seats on the boards of companies they were supposed to be pressuring for higher wages and benefits. The results of hobnobbing with corporate executives were predictable: givebacks and concessions to companies so they can pay their executives more and more. In 2009, for example, the United Auto Workers agreed to freeze their salaries to help save the big three Detroit automakers. They also slashed employee benefits, including healthcare. Did the Big Three use those savings to invest in new plants? Hell no. They continued to outsource jobs overseas. Meanwhile, as UAW members got laid off and struggled through pay freezes, Ford gave president and CEO Alan Mulally a raise in his stratospheric annual salary, to $17.9 million
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