Reply #45: It's very much like moving into an existing house. The amenities are already in place

[SoCalDem]

You may want to remodel a bit here and there, but the house is up and ready to occupy.. The unions built "the house" and made it safe to live in, and if non-union people now occupy it, they get to take advantage of the sturdiness of the place, but if they refuse to maintain it, it will eventually fall down in disrepair.

Without a history of good benefits & wages brought into existence BY unions, there would be no reason to pay "decent wages".. Union pay & benefits set the standard..Non-union bosses have spent decades chipping away at it, and are almost "there"..Every union is under intense attack, and in danger of disappearing, since there are way more workers than jobs, and companies have shown us all how easy it is to just uproot the company and move it to where workers will work for less.

People use Costco as a glimmering example of "doing it right", BUT remember, Costco is but ONE sell out/hostile takeover away from undoing it all for the employees.. Everything is for sale, if the price is right.