Democrat's Apathy For Unions Is Suicide

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203. +1. People might not recognize the importance of tradesmen & skilled workers until their

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McMansion has a sewage backup and they only find out about it when they return home from vacation which I've seen, or their upscale neighborhood has a gas leak blow out fire which destroys several private residences. In the latter case, low wage untrained utility workers who didn't know what they were doing because of poor supervision was the likely reason for the accident.

A few years ago an Indian friend took a heat/ac technician training course in which most students did not read any English and some took photos of print materials in order to to try to figure out the information later. Eliminating government regulation and oversight, abolishing unions and using unskilled cheaper labor generates more profit for management but at what cost.
In Germany if automobiles are recalled by the manufacturer for a problem, the cars can't pass inspection until it's fixed unlike the US. Do you really want to be taken out by a driver who didn't have enough time or money to fix their car's defective brake problems?

The same goes for auto manufacturers and mechanics who work on elites expensive cars, medical technicians in their doctors offices and hospitals, and the agricultural industry and food handlers in the restaurants where they dine.
Permitting lowered standards, fewer govt. regulations and inspections, and less trained, less paid non-union workers in any profession or industry is highly dangerous. That goes for the current privatization of McSchools with uncertified teachers that is producing a vast population of undereducated masses who are having much difficulty finding decent employment. Those dispossessed masses might cause a lot of problems one day, before they're arrested and sent to prison.

So all people, even the wealthy better think and realize that a better educated and higher paid workforce creates a stronger society. We just saw 149 innocent people killed by a sick pilot whose cut rate airline company pays low salaries, has reduced govt. regulation and is so lax that it didn't monitor an employee with a serious medical problem even though the parent company, Luftansa had full knowledge of the pilots condition from doctors records he disclosed to them 6 years ago in 2009.