Baran: The choice to act is ours
Last week’s announcement of an early contract settlement with Locals 34 and 35 came as a welcome surprise to many in the city who have become accustomed to labor strife at Yale.
The new contracts are truly unprecedented, and are incredible for maintaining job standards and preventing layoffs despite the wretched state of the economy. They also help ensure that, as the University grows, union membership will grow too — thus creating hundreds of good jobs that will help build a strong economic foundation for families in New Haven.
These new contracts offer a powerful example...
Funny how we never hear from anyone about how the YNHH workers are so undertreated and abused, especailly when they get great benefits, PIP checks, PTO, education compensation, home loans, ect. Seems to me that the whole union thing at YNHH never really had any support at all, and how union people manage to conveniently overlook the FACT that YNHH employees are the best paid among hospital employees IN THE STATE.
Stop making the illogical comparison to Yale U workers. The Hospital and YU are separate and distinct entities. Compare YNHH workers to others in the SAME industry, and you see they are the best compensated in the state. I said SAME INDUSTRY, NOT THE SAME JOB YOU IDIOT!
A huge fact you people have selectivly chosen to stick your heads in the sand about for 9 years. You people (and yes, I called you union people 'you people' don't have a clue. Time mto stop pissing your money away in dues to the higher ups who don;t give a rat's rear about you and keep the $$ in your own pockets.
Ever heard of "opportunity cost"?
The extra money the Local 34 and 35 negotiated for themselves will not be spent in other ways around New Haven.
Local 34 and 35 did what any person would do- act in their own selfish interests.
But that doesn't make them morally commendable, honorable, or warriors against "The Man".
Instead, it demonstrates the coercive power of one special interest group over the rest of the community.
Why should they be immune from the recession? What makes them so special? And if they are truly special, why does it take the state-protected act of unionizing to prove their worth?
LET THEM FAIL!- banks, unions, and anyone else who cannot succeed on their own merits.