Wow I just saw an anti-Union episode of the Flintstones

[Drale]

Heres the link for the scene, this really changes my thoughts on those cave people.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. hardly anti-union

this just goes to show that there was a time when being Union was the most viable path to a comfortable standard of living for most Americans




Oh, wait.....



It still is

[Zalatix]

2. They're saying the union people are lazy, overpaid and LATE. Ironically

I encountered all these problems more with non-union people...

[Motown_Johnny]

6. the Flintstones ran from from 1960-1966 and

in those years union workers made up anywhere from 28.5% to 30.4% of the workforce.

With those kinds of numbers I think everyone was aware that this was just a joke on a cartoon.



http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/Union+Membership:+Overall+(1948-2004)



edit to add


I just found the whole episode online and it looks like Fred decides to do the work himself and they screw everything up. It would seem that the plot line requires a reason to not do union labor. Maybe one scene taken out of context shouldn't be taken as a serious attack on unions.

http://www.cartoonlair.com/the-flintstones/6x02-the-house-that-fred-built-video_147b7502d.html

[The Wielding Truth]

9. They are just commenting on the cost of Plumbers. It's because they have a union that they are well

compensated yes, but it is more of a comment on how well plumbers are valued.Plumbers are still expensive.It doesn't say they are lazy.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Definitely does seem anti-union, not only that it pits middle class vs middle class

As if $20/hr is something to be envious about while there are people who wipe their asses with $100 bills they didn't do a lick of labor for laughing at those who make $20/hr.

[Drale]

5. Well remember that the Flintstones was made in the 60's

so $20.00 an hour was a ton of cash.

[FarLeftFist]

7. Yeah but it really wasn't a TON of cash. Sure, they got paid a good wage for their hard work.

I thought that was the American Dream, a good wage for honest hard work. Even in the 60's that was a good middle class income but far from rich like this episode is making it to be. On the other hand I agree with Johnny, it makes unionism in that aspect seem like a good encouraging thing to achieve.

[trackfan]

10. In th 60s, if someone made $20,000 a year, or about $10 an hour,

he would have been considered to have been upper middle class. My dad made $4.52 an hour in 1971, and that was the TOP of the scale for the most senior non-management employees at his plant. $40,000 a year would have been an incredible wage in the 60s. Our house cost $11,000; The houses on the "rich" street in town (part of Los Angeles) went for $30-40,000.

[FarLeftFist]

11. I don't know. My mother bought her house in the Bronx in 1971 for $43,000 and it's

A semi-attached in THE BRONX not far from a swampy area (that has since been built on). All I'm saying is that $20/hr for a day of physical labor is a GOOD income but there were also PLENTY of millionaires back that would laugh at $20/hr. Plus, that $20/hr could be going towards their pension/annuity/out of work fund.

[KansDem]

4. Yeah? Well, here's another look at Fred and Barney

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Slackers!!!

[Zalatix]

12. I've got just one thing to say about that...

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[Politicalboi]

8. I loved this cartoon

It's as old as I am. Solid proof we humans lived among the Dino's. LOL!

[Broderick]

13. Satire maybe?