Only in your dreams,
joec.
This is what the OWS crowd doesn't understand. The auto industry does not build cars under the control of the state (well, except for GM) and if they did, then maybe the worker would have some say in the process.
This notion of fairly sharing in the profits is for social dreamers.
It is called supply and demand. The man or corporation that risks its capital to build a product establishes the demand for skilled labor. And if the labor pool is extensive (which it always is for most all manufacturing and construction processes) the worker does as told or he/she will be promptly replaced.
In the professional fields, where demand may outstrip supply of talent, the roles can be reversed. That's why smart kids go to college and get a degree that is marketable. These degrees are academically difficult to obtain. The kids that get the easy anthropology degrees are SOL. They go occupy Wall Street.
But for unschooled, common or skilled labor, you liberals can dream on that the employee will ever have a say in sharing the fruits of the capital put at risk by the employer.
And dream on that the unions have any real concern for the quality of the product it they produce. Other than bargaining for working conditions and wages for the workmen, the only concern of the union is the collection of dues to sustain its own existence and to wield political power.
Unlike you,
joec, who seems to have done just about every job in the world during your life
this is what I did for forty years: Observe and study the differences between merit shop workmen vs. union shop workmen. Give me a merit shop man any day of the week, because he works and produces based upon his
merit, not based upon the protection he derives from some union.
And an ambitious merit shop man can make some awesome money. Because he has merit - a hard thing for some folks to understand.
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