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Originally posted by emmanuelle
Workers who belong to unions:
-earn higher wages
-receive better training
-work fewer hours
-have longer job tenure
-live longer
Union membership also closes the wage gap between women and men and fights discrimination.
Read the world bank report at http://www.walmartworkerscanada.com/WB_union_rep.pdf
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Unions can also hurt businesses because they are forced to keep employees they no longer need due to new technologies which replace certain employee functions.
A good example is what unions did to California's ship ports. Many 3rd world countries have better and more efficient ship port terminals because they don't have a union forcing them to keep employees that could easily be replaced by a machine.
If a worker wants to have a better life, wage, and job....they should go get educated rather then fall back on a union.