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WHY ARE THE GERMAN UNIONS STRONGER THEN THE AMERICAN UNIONS ?
Yes Joe your right the Unions have out lived their usefulness. The financial industry had absolutely nothing to do with the current money problems in the world!!
European unions have more clout because every time someone over there farts, they go on strike, or threaten to. They get entire industries to walk out, and half the other unions walk out in solidarity. That type of loyalty will never again be found in unions over here, therefore, company management knows they will always have the upper hand. People over there are hungry like Americans were 50-60 years ago. European unions would never have stood to see 15% of their livelyhood go back into the pockets of the CEO's, but there was never even a hint of uprising here for it. Unions here will never have the power they once did, and CEO's know it.
If those kind of give backs were voted for in Europe, there would have been full scale riots in the streets, and entire cities would have been shut down (or burned). Over there, they are for workers only, and if the company goes out of business, so what. They could care less about the company, so long as their check cashes (company or government doesn't matter). Everyone is union, so the next job will pick up where the last one left off.... These are the people who rioted when they RAISED THE WORK WEEK TO 35 HRS. My God... Who actually works a whole seven hours a day? That's borderline inhumane treatment... Then again, two hour lunches and wine and beer in the lunch box are the norm.