Unions Pros And Cons

The best thing about a union is that they make sure the employees are receiving adequate wages. This helps keep minimum wage met, thus allowing people to keep their wages suitable to live on even if you are working a non skill job. This allows people to have the basic quality of life that everyone deserves. you can see that wages are not suitable in places that cant have Unions like China. In these countries people can get paid wages of 25 cents an hour or even lower. This shows us we need unions to keep proper wages and allow everyone to live with a good quality of life. This is probably the best thing a union can do for someone. If you need something to have that basic quality of life it has to be money. you need money to live in a house,buy food,

Another good thing is that unions keep up the quality of the workplace. If a worker is working somewhere and there is potentially dangerous equipment a Union can push push the company to spend more money and get proper safety equipment to cut down on injury. This definitely will benefit the workers because the prevention of injury will help them continue good health and keep working so that you can have enough money to live. This can also benefit the employer by allowing his workers to remain healthy and also the safe environment Will attract more workers. This benefit can help the employer to keep the company flowing with good and experienced workers.

The last positive aspect that I will write about is that Unions can prevent a company from putting people out of work because they don't want to pay them. In a teachers situation they get paid more every year. in Montana teacher teach for two years and than they don't get there contract renued. Teachers in Alberta are part of a teacher union that allows teachers to always get there contract renued as long as they teach properly and aren't abusive. This union protection is not there in Montana. This allows schools to hire a first year teacher and keep them at low pay for a couple years then when they get a big enough raise they lay them off. If a union was there they would keep those teachers in work for up to 50 years. This trait of a union helps the working body to have more security.

A negative aspect to Unions is that it can pressure the company so much that it will shut down. An example of this was shown at a Wall mart in Jonquiere Quebec Canada. This group of Wal-mart workers were the first to join a union. After joining this union the Wall mart company closed this Wall mart store down putting 190 people out of work.The Wall mart supposedly shut down because of money problems but many think the union pressured it to close down. Instead of helping people make adequate wages they caused the people to be out of work.

Another negative aspect of Unions is that they can cause someone to get fired because the company sees that person as a threat. This shows up in situations when a person is working a non skilled job. For example if someone was working at Mac Donald's and decides they aren't getting paid enough so they become part of a Union. The Union then begins to try and get this worker more money. Mac Donald's decides that they can find someone else that will flip burgers for a lower wage.

The last negative aspect is that unions can cost lots of money to be part of. They can suck money from your pockets and give less back. Unions can cause this financial damage and not help you. this can be called a scam. This is one thing that really worries me about unions.