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Motown_Johnny

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6. the Flintstones ran from from 1960-1966 and

Reply to Zalatix (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 04:48 PM

Jan 2012

in those years union workers made up anywhere from 28.5% to 30.4% of the workforce.

With those kinds of numbers I think everyone was aware that this was just a joke on a cartoon.

http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/Union+Membership:+Overall+(1948-2004)

edit to add

I just found the whole episode online and it looks like Fred decides to do the work himself and they screw everything up. It would seem that the plot line requires a reason to not do union labor. Maybe one scene taken out of context shouldn't be taken as a serious attack on unions.

http://www.cartoonlair.com/the-flintstones/6x02-the-house-that-fred-built-video_147b7502d.html

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Wow I just saw an anti-Union episode of the Flintstones [View all] Drale Jan 2012 OP

hardly anti-union Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #1

They're saying the union people are lazy, overpaid and LATE. Ironically Zalatix Jan 2012 #2

the Flintstones ran from from 1960-1966 and Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #6

They are just commenting on the cost of Plumbers. It's because they have a union that they are well The Wielding Truth Jan 2012 #9

Definitely does seem anti-union, not only that it pits middle class vs middle class FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #3

Well remember that the Flintstones was made in the 60's Drale Jan 2012 #5

Yeah but it really wasn't a TON of cash. Sure, they got paid a good wage for their hard work. FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #7

In th 60s, if someone made $20,000 a year, or about $10 an hour, trackfan Jan 2012 #10

I don't know. My mother bought her house in the Bronx in 1971 for $43,000 and it's FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #11

Yeah? Well, here's another look at Fred and Barney KansDem Jan 2012 #4

I've got just one thing to say about that... Zalatix Jan 2012 #12

I loved this cartoon Politicalboi Jan 2012 #8

Satire maybe? Broderick Jan 2012 #13