To Earn or Deserve?
Are these the same or different? When I work hard to hone my skills to a level above those of my peers have I earned a better paycheck, do I deserve a better paycheck, or both? I am thankfull when my work is respected but I am not thankfull for justbeing given a job.
As for one person earning more due to the work they put into the company, that is the past. There are managers and executives with whom I have had the displeasure of working for who never put in one full day of 'work'. Their time was spent on the golf courses or in the bars with others of their ilk.
The union is a tool, a tool to use in order to demand what you are worth when employers conspire to reduce your worth. True, it is freedom if you can go someplace else and earn the same or more, but when businesses conspire to reduce the worth of your work, (which they have done successfully for IT), then you need to do something to defend that freedom. It's getting to the point where you cannot just walk out to do this, what do you propose that we do to defend our supposed freedom once we can't walk out?
I earned my job, I worked my way from the very bottom up and I deserve what I expect because I worked hard, I have innate talent, I learnall I can, and I applythat to serve the business best. Yet managers have no accountability so they give raises to those who flatter their egos instead of those who do the most. Executives conspire to reduce costs by cutting worker's pay instead of other methods. Hard work and talent are no longer the respected things that they were in your father's and grandfather's age. I don't want a union that will protect the mediocre butt kissers like the current non-union workplace does already, I want one that will get the people who do the best what they have earned. I believe that such a union could be made, but I suppose that certain close minded people just can't see that possibility.
