Self-checkout rant. Agree or disagree?

[DENVERPOPS]

148. A month ago,

I asked a checker at Safeway what the journeyman wage, (five years experience), was for a checker.......She said she had 12 years and made 16.60 an hour.

I told her a close friend of mine in the early 80's was a Safeway Checker with 10 years experience
and that she made 22.15 and hour........

Wow, 44 years later, and making five and a half bucks less per hour.......

Then I recalled about 15 years ago, the checkers at Safeway went on strike. Safeway told the journeyman checkers that they would give them a dollar more an hour, if they would agree that all new hires could be hired at half price......The Safeway checkers agreed. I asked one of them how they would feel if the workers before them had agreed to a contract that started that them at half the wages??????
Soon after, RTD Bus drivers in Denver, agreed to the same kind of contract after watching Safeway workers do it.....

Reagan's union busting swept the nation like wildfire.................He emasculated the *National Labor Relations Board* of their regulatory powers that had most often sided with the Union employees during wage negotiations.......and unfair labor practices by the Corporations....

In 1980 a Union Journeyman Electrician in the Denver Union was earning about 22.00 and hour and 26% Fringe. A few weeks after Reagan's infamous PATCO, Airline Controllers Union busting, suddenly contractors in Denver were only offering 12.00 and hour and O fringe........
A friend was an Electrician, making a pretty typical middle class wage prior to the busting of the Denver Electrical Union. He could own an average middle class house, have a car, take a modest family vacation, and if his kids worked summers he could help them to pay for a year of college. His medical coverage was for the entire family........
By 1999 the union electrical wage in Denver had finally reached 19.00 Dollars an hour and 11% fringe........Figure the massive inflation over that same 20 year period, and deduct that from the 1999 wage......