Immigrant population density in 1880

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Immigrant population density in 1880
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• Immigrants in the millions by five year increments

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Workers at an engine repair shop
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The result of the Great 1877 Railroad Strike,
here is a devastated rail station a day after the
strike.
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PRAISER Unions are often well-intentioned, but
they interfere with the free market system,
driving prices up for everyone and preventing
less skilled workers for competing for the same
jobs with the only asset they have to negotiate
with their willingness to accept lower pay.
Unions abuse their power and exploit their own
members often for political reasons. Unions
prevent employers from firing or disciplining
workers who are incompetent or perform poorly,
thus hurting productivity, increasing costs for
consumers, and even causing safety hazards for
their fellow employees or the public with their
product. In fact, unions in the long run
actually hurt their employees more than they
help. By raising wages and compensation above
that which is profitable, companies are
eventually unable to compete and collapse under
the weight of union-negotiated terms. The auto
industry and airline industry are good examples
of how union successes eventually cost hundreds
of thousands of workers their jobs as the
companies either could not compete with
manufacturers overseas or could not maintain
profitability in the global economic community.
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Critic Unions are the only thing that stand
between a money-grubbing employer and the
horrendous treatment of employees. Without a
union, workers are forced to accept the dictates
of the management, without any power to protest
unjust decisions. If an owner cuts a salary of
one man for instance, the employee can do
nothing. If they protest too loudly they will
simply be fired and someone willing to do the
work for less will take that persons place.
This doesnt cause any real loss of profit or
production for the company, so they can treat
their workers like disposable commodities. In
fact, many companies that are not unionized,
deliberately terminate their most loyal and
longtime employees because with longevity they
have also increased in pay rate and hurt the
bottom line. This hurts consumers as well,
because the high turnover means the product is
produced by an inferior worker or the service is
provided by just the one who would do it
cheapest, not the one who would do it best. With
unions, companies cannot simply arbitrarily act
upon their workforce, because while the company
can handle the loss of two or three workers in a
day who would not toe the line, it loses massive
amounts of money when union-led strikers walk off
the job. Collectively, workers have their voices
heard. Individually, they are not even a blip on
the radar to the corporate machine.