Labor Unions Benefits

Unions were large groups created that were made up of laborers with a common goal of having their needs met in their workplace. In an age of an industrialized America, business success was important, resulting in manipulation of the poor and lower class in desperate need of a job. Since they were aware these types of jobs are what prevented poverty for some they placed them in dangerous and unfair work environments that were more efficient. Eventually, this leads to terrible pay, unreasonably long hours and dangerous working conditions. In 1881 The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions was formed by many laborers as well as Samuel Gompers (pictured on the left) which lead to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission creation in …show more content…
An illustration of how unions could be viewed as being too generous is the benefits of being a TWU (Transport Workers Union) member. While working on the construction of New York's subway systems you earn benefits such as 30 vacation days a year, an average of 64 sick days a year, a lavish health care plan, as well as retirement at 55 after an initial joining fee of only twenty dollars. For this reason members of these unions usually lack any sort of skill or initiative that makes them valuable enough to receive such a magnanimous treatment since they are being promised a stable salary without any having to reach a certain working standard. In essence, today’s unions can also be labeled as deceitful because hard working Americans tax money is going towards those looking for an easy way of receiving income with minimal effort rather than truly serving as a refining organization. Union members today can be easily generalized as an overall unskilled group that causes harm to the economy since they are well paid with less efficiency. Though only 12% of working Americans are in unions today this one-sided system cannot be beneficial to the economy, but instead a form of damage to those who do work