Why are the german unions stronger then the american ?

[snake eyes]

WHY ARE THE GERMAN UNIONS STRONGER THEN THE AMERICAN UNIONS ?

[little d]

snake, this is just my pov but, here goes....
Our Union structure is from the top down and we have been told and told, never question what our Union leadership does just stand behind them. If you will look objectively at whats going on within our Union right now, it is a microcosm of whats going on within our Country. We continue to elect leadership that has no clue as to what it takes for us to make a pay check, no clue as to what we have to go through every day. Stop and think about this; little “Jimmy” has never drove a truck, never humped freight, the man is a lawyer, not a Teamster and has never had to fight for a damn thing in his life.

The European Unions are structured from the bottom up, being a lot more democratic than we are, they elect their leadership from within their ranks, hence the stronger member participation and unity.

[Abbyroad]

Less corruption?

[Joe the plumber]

Most of Europe is bankrupt because of public unions as are most states in the US are bankrupt for the same reason.

Public unions at the helm!!!

[dirbydog]

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!!

[Triplex]

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!!

If you read his comments more carefully, he's talking about PUBLIC unions, not private sector. There's a huge difference.

[little d]

Triplex, if you look at the time-line of our wages compared to the REAL rate of inflation (including things such as health insurance, gas, etc...) you'll see that our wages have fallen WAY behind. The public sector Unions have kept up on their wages and bennies which gives the appearance of being over payed.

On a side note but should be included; if ya take our gross pay, use that figure as our net and then look at the difference between that and what we should be making...interesting.

Now, just for giggles, if ya take those taxes that we should be paying (if our wages weren’t so far behind), figure the ppl that should be working instead of being out of work and take out all of the unfunded wars from the deficit....just sayin.

[scotmac0]

I lived in Germany for 8 yrs ...... They have a different mind set !! The people & goverment support orginized labor verses our country fighting it at every turn !! They have a very good mix of capitalism & socialism .... something we can't seem to grasp here !!

[snake eyes]

FIGHT THE POWER... JUST THINK... IF EVERYBODY JOINED TOGETHER.

[616jimmy]

I dont know, but maybe they do something for the membership instead of themselfs.