Who Wants to Work for the Labor Union Industry?
by Veronique de RugyBased on this data , I am thinking that the good life starts the day one gets a job as an employee of your local Labor Union and in fact those overpaid financial sector people might want to change jobs!
This table, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows the changes in the wages in three sectors: the private sector, the Labor Union industry and the financial industry. According to the BLS, the Labor Union industry “comprises establishments primarily engaged in promoting the interests of organized labor and union employees.” That’s basically all the guys who work in a Union. The financial industry is “The Finance and Insurance sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in financial transactions (transactions involving the creation, liquidation, or change in ownership of financial assets) and/or in facilitating financial transactions.” So the Goldman Sacks, AIG and others.
As one can see clearly here since the beginning of the recession, private sector employees have seen their wages grown by 3.3 percent (roughly the rate of inflation.) The financial sector employees have been slightly better off with wages growing at a 4.1 percent rate.
Meanwhile, wages in the labor unions have continued to increase. And not by 5 percent or 7 percent but by over 24.9 percent!!!
So now, i am left to wonder, shouldn’t the pay Czar (also known as the TARP Special Master) be looking at the Labor Union Industry rather then the financial industry?
Here is some more Union data:
Labor Union industry Employment (again that’s the people who work directly for a Union) decreased by 1.7 thousand workers since January of 2010 (or 1.3%). Compare this to a decrease of 7.4% in employment in the private sector during that same period.
For the first time in our history, more public sector employees (7.9 million) belonged to a union than did private sector employees (7.4 million), despite there being 5 times more wage and salary workers in the private sector.
Geez, this might explain this equation:
well-paid union employees + the more unionized public sector employees than private sector employees = this
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Now all I need is a job with a government sponsored, unionized financial institution. Talk about job security!
Finally, giving Ruth Bader Ginsberg sponge baths are paying off! Wages have increased from $1 a day to $1.24/ day.
I also hear Bill Maher is hiring someone to grease his hair once an hour and solicit prostitutes for him. It can be used as a government write-off too!
Hey here's an idea – lets all go join Unions and give them the progressive treatment – you know, that whole slow destruction from within thing?
And to think just a decade ago Libtards were griping about shrinking union power. Thanks to Barry and Stern, SEIU, UAW, et al, we're screwed.
Now they're conducting this sham on Crapitol Hill attacking Toyota to bolster Gubment Motors sales. They're hell bent on damaging Asian (world) markets and the dollar just so unions get their short-term payoffs. Stupid, selfish and myopic!
if you don't mind having Satan as your boss…
Kidding aside, a close relative left government service some years ago. Nice, plum job doing video for HHS.
Paid well, and worked little.
He hated it. Seems the man wanted to be productive. When he announced his leaving- yes- to go into the private sector- fellow workers could not believe what he was leaving. They thought him crazy.
Of course, we think him honorable…
Just think, Maher's prostitute numbers will also be counted as 'jobs saved or created'. He's got to pitch in for the good of his team, ya know.
It's a damn abomination. The union parasites are stealing the private sectors wealth. I have more respect for gangsters than union bosses.
Pig in a trough. Is anyone surprised? Really?
You say that as if there is a difference.
Anyone who believes that he is owed by the next guy fits right into unions. Seniority, breaks, vacations, work rules, benefits are the only thing that matters to the unionistas–screw product quality and putting in an honest days work. Bottom Line:
U.A.W. = U Ain't Workin"
the author does a huge service to the people continuously with these exposes…thank you so very much…slowly people are waking up to what is happening due to unions. Would it be constitutional to outlaw unions representing publicly paid workers??? The vicious circle has to stop somehow.
What labor unions are these that received a 24% rate increase. I deal with electrical unions all of the time and their wage is froze for the next 2 years.
I know that union labor is a bit slow on the uptake, so let me type tis slowly.. They are not referring to the employees that labor union workers are paying to represent them NOT the labor Union workers working for a capitalist enterprise.
are you for real?
Who Wants to Work for the Labor Union Industry? by Veronique de Rugy: It doesn't matter because this balloon is going to burst soon enough and it will be interesting whats going to happen to the people that DO NOT support this "BEAST!" I'm sure obama will protect his chosen few with the spoils taken from his looting!
The union members wages may be frozen but not the wages of their union leaders or union administration. Union leaders think of their rank and file as Rank and vile. Wake up, they do not have their workers best interest at heart.
Where did the stimulus money go? Who benefits most if we go to single payer health care? What sector of our economy has the lowest unemployment rates? Which industry makes the highest per captia income?
the health care issue driven by the unions is to allow them to escape from paying for the care themselves with the money they collected and then looted from their own members' pension and health plans.
Please libs connect the dots, even your rose colored idealistic brains can see this hypocracy? Let's work to gether here, we all stand to survive.
Care to show your work?
Until you do you've got nothing.
Except, of course, I'm sure you've got the teabaggers believing it.
As a country we are bankrupt and the bloated government is hugely responsible for this. We will soon be made to pay for the debt incurred by the loons running this place, especially the loons presently in power. These gravy jobs are going to be the first to go when we collapse along with all the little pet entitlements. It will be the only way to start paying back our mountainous debts. I would love to believe that somehow we could deflate this monster before it bursts.
America isn't for Americans anymore. It's a giant heist. We aren't supposed to figure that out until too late. Is it?
It won't be for long….when the economy goes down the $hiter, their jobs will be the first cut!
There is a lot of things that…. "is froze"… for the NEXT two years……
The chart was for the LAST two years.
Having walked into the Post Office and DMV, I find myself looking around and thinking….I could never work in a place like this, the people are like zombies and have no soul….so I don't think your statement of the "Satan as thier boss" is to far off!
Some of us have the desire built into us to be productive and some are lazy…Its simple to guess what their political philosopies are…
Ms. de Rugy,
"So now, i am left to wonder, shouldn’t the pay Czar (also known as the TARP Special Master) be looking at the Labor Union Industry rather then the financial industry?"
I think you should formally request that the Pay Czar immediately investigate the pay structure of Andy Stern at SEIU. Send your formal request via certified mail, and get back to US with the response……
What tables were you using – where is this data?
I was going to point out how and why you were wrong but then I realized it was you anon. And like the kid picked last for everything you're still angry at the rest of us for being normal. Don't worry buddy you could always move to CA. you would fit right in : )
If it seems to be untrue, it probably is. ~25% increase? Sounds pretty fishy to me.
OK …anon….you exist.
Part of the increase is no doubt due to the growth in govmt jobs which are, conviently, union jobs. Just a case of one hand washing the other. Just wait for the backlash though. The unions are in for a rough time after Maobama. And well deserved.
On another business matter, I am ashamed at the way our CONgress is treating Akido Toyoda at the hearings.
Mr. Toyoda should make the following statement:
愚痴の後悔の息子行く性交自分！
BTW, are those multi-million dollar, tax-subsidized bonuses paid to Goldman SacHs included in the "salary"?
These those INCREASES – why don't you list actual salaries?
Calculations based off of statistics provided by the Bureau of Labor …
"If it seems to be untrue, it probably is. ~25% increase?"
For someone to draw that conclusion would require some common sense.
Something sorely lacking in the teabagosphere.
And especially when the author provides nothing, nada, zero, zip to support her claim.
And the teabaggers lap it up.
God you people are stupid.
Gangsters at least expect results. You don't pull your weight in the family business, you'll get "fired". You don't pull your weight in a union, you'll get a raise.
it is why the government, as an employer, was a lowest common denominator job. Crummy pay, but security and decent benefits. That's all been stood on it's head. Appeals to the same sloth like creatures- but rewards them beyond anything they could actually ever earn in a competitive scenario.
Loyal Democratic votes they become. That was always the plan…
What part of "Bureau of Labor Statistics" don't you understand.
Typical idiot Douchebagger.
Simply amazing!
Two weeks ago, I started carping about cutting Government in half. 50 % cuts across the board, and 50% cuts to those that are left.
Glen Beck just put down his pipe and said cut government by 50%.
Amazing.
"What part of "Bureau of Labor Statistics" don't you understand."
Legitimate journalists provide links, jackass.
Lets' see one. Until that, you've got nothing.
Ok you put your required number of characters into a conservative blog so now you can go and see boss Axelrod and get your pay. Is this what you do for income when you are not out with new voter registration applications to fraudulently file. Do you get paid on a quota system, bonus for more conservative replies? Tell me I would just love to know.
Most union contracts (pay increases) are scheduled in three year increments and not necessarily in equal increments. ….
In any case you and Dhaffy seem to question the stated 24.9% number…. so since we people are so stupid,
let us assume that you two whiz kids are not and accept your premise that the number is in error……..
The fact is that union worker raises, especially govt. union worker raises, are not a reflection of the state of the economy as they are for the vast majority of widget makers……..
Thus, I do believe that it is a fare assumption to think that real percentage for Da union boyz is indeed a lot closer to 24.9% than to 3%.
DUUUH.
The same tables Harry and Nancy used for their Health Care Plan.
Goldman is in bed with this administration! But I know that is not the reason you hate them is it? I abhor the usurious money the top people make at these houses and the atrocious behavior they demonstrate. But they are after all 'private industry. Unlike the scums at the top of fannie and Freddie who make the same kind of money but off our backs and at the expense of the entire housing industry, which affects us all. You really are too predictable and too selective in the direction of your brand of HATE.
Right on Dhaffy…. and don't forget Fannie and Freedie
I know that. Which tables.
You are a bit weak in your ad hominens – he said he deals with them.
Who is receiving a 25% increase? THAT seems unreal.
What tables were used?
I like what he just said about van jones, yes keep us informed as to what they are doing!!!
Military would account for about 50%. Sounds good.
Can you say …..Conflict of interest……
Yes.
But I wish he'd loose the friggen pipe. He looks like a moron.
Nah.
There are no CONflicts for CONgress.
Those are just the rules the rest of US have to play by.
Capitalism stimulates the human brain which in turn stimulates a society!
Socialism decays the human brain which in turn decays a society!
Wrong! You're supposed to say "God conservatives are stupid". Get you ad hominem attacks right, will you?
Oh come on anon…. the only LINK the lefties have had for the past 40 years has been with the missing one….
I come up with an opinion (based on my dealings with unions practically all my life)….
and you want me to prove the theory of relativity…. boy it's a good thing you aren't the one
dispelling this global warming thing… Al Gore wouldn't have gotten to first base.
Besides, who the hell made you the Ump…so where are your links?????
The days of the union are coming to an end.The last great depression created a need for the unions to exist;the next depression will destroy them….
Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce the newest member of the United Auto Workers Union…
Akido! stand up and take a bow.
don't get your numbers – how are they calculated? I can only find the 2008-2009 numbers which don't have the above:
From the BLS (2008-2009):
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t02.htm – breakdown by union membership.
Member of union – 2.5%
Represented by union – 2.4%
Non-union – 4.1%
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t04.htm – breakdown by occupation.
Since the day Alexander Hamilton told everyone that the newly formed USA needed to be in debt to the rest of the worlds international bankers, is the day America was not for Americans….This happened in the first year of our Republic.
I agree, closest i can find is 2008-2009:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t02.htm – breakdown by union membership.
Members of unions: 2.5%
Represented by unions: 2.4%
Non-union: 4.1%
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t04.htm – breakdown by occupation.
Although their wages are frozen, I bet their union dues are going up…
Just found this on another blog and is destined to become a classic line:
All politicians should be limited to two terms: one in office, the other in jail!
Same story with a friend of mine at the IRS………… he couldn't take doing nothing for a living.
"Yes officer I know my tags are expired. You do know that the DMV has been closed for months and I can't get the tags renewed."
The only problem with this scenario is that the cops won't be there either.
Better pack!!
not to mention being disliked- intensely- by his neighbors…
Yeah. We warned him….. but what can you do??
Sorry Lorben but I think we are just going to have to bite the bullet and tighten our belts
It's going to be a long road
I unfortunately agree and getting ready….I feel sorry for my grandchildren yet born. One good thing about that is they will have no idea of what they are missing.
Interesting tidbit:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/22/autos/gm_fritz_he...
I wonder where the Pay Czar is?
And don't forget, the gangster's pension plan is always fully funded. If liabilities exceed assets they know how to "cut" the fat, sort of speak.
Now… the govt could do something like that but it might require….. say a "death panel" or something like that. They could decide who would get say….. an operation and who couldn't based on the amount of pension they were going to receive and how much money would be saved by them dying young. Of course they would have to control health care in this country to do that but……
But hey! Andy Stern would never let something like that happen.
I wonder where the Pay Czar is?
Busy paying unions, insiders and supporters – and paying back those who won't play.
Can anyone say, "leech"?
Now that many of our manufacturing and service industries have left and/or been out-sourced to Mexico, India and the Phillipines, what's next for Big Labor? While there is a need for better cooperation between company and labor, it would appear unions have been incidental in aiding in the flight of these industries, not to mention the jobs and capital that comes with them. While I believe we're all for keeping jobs in this country, the apparent subjugation of the corporations to the unions through clever ploys by the administration are a cause for concern.
The definition of fascism is when the corporatist entity is infused with a radical authoritarian regime, creating an economic system that is in itself a contradiction. When Mr. Obama 'saved' the economy by spending trillions of dollars 'buying' big busines to save us from the greedy corporatists, it was really a hostile take-over. The government, ahem, the people are now the owners and as that is the case, the government will do business in the business world on behalf of the people, effectively creating a seismic shift in the capitalist/corporatist/free market economy. And with Obama's chummy relationship with unions, who do you think will have a say in how business is run?
If the success of our nation is measured by a strong dollar, low trade deficit, a vibrant economy and the highest standard of living anywhere in history, perhaps we should take a good look at when unions have taken us. With friends like these, who needs enemies.
SEIU—Focus on the INTERNATIONAL part of that and they have the 'favored son' seat at the Obama table.
The growing sector for all unions in America—government.
the corruption just keeps going and going and going and going….just like the energizer bunny—not nearly as cute or useful.
I'm in that electrical workers union – IBEW. All of our business agents, our executive board and every leader's pay is based on our hourly wage and they receive the exact same benefits as the rank and file. The only difference is that they are paid for more hours worked and I know for sure that they work more than 40 hour work weeks.
Now before you piss all over me, I am a very, very conservative man. But the union bashing and the non-factual claims need to stop. If you don't know the truth or can't find it, shut the fuct up! That goes for libtards as well as conservatives that don't know what the fuct they're talking about especially about unions. I'm conservative, I'm a union man and I know.
A buddy of mine jokes that all politicians should serve as many years in jail as they do in office. Here in Illinois it is almost a reality.
CHICAGO RALPH,
Link? Until then you've got nothing.
bet his occupation was a kicker at neighborhood barbeques. The conversation that ends conversation, as they say…
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I just saw a veiw of the vehicles outside Blair House and there sure seemed to be a LOT of GMC Chevy Suburbans and Tahoes. Are our tax dollars buying their cars along with their debt? Those Tahoe Hybrids are MORE than $50,000. each! Guess we need to keep those Unions happy.
Please, please stop using bogus statistics on this website. It makes you no better than the other guys.
Median weekly earnings for union in 2006 were $833, and $908 in 2009. Thats a 9% increase.
Median weekly earnings for non-union in 2006 were $642, and $710 in 2009. Thats a 10.6% increase.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/union2_0...
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