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I was talking to someone the other day and they were telling me how they thought that the people that work at Assembly Car plants (GM,Ford,Saturn,etc) should take pay cuts, give up their benefits and thinks that union employees are spoiled. She wasn't happy when I explained to her that the union factory workers were like a food chain in the community......If the factories close or shut down, give pay cuts, the rest of the community fails too. A lot of the employees in these factories use businesses that keep the rest of the community afloat. Hairdressers, grocery stores, clothing stores, restaurants, etc. If people that made good money could no longer afford to frequent those places, the other businesses would fail. If they would take a pay cut, all other businesses would want to do the same and anyone that was getting paid over minimum wage would be reduced to minimum wage. I asked if she liked having Thanksgiving, Christmas, other Holidays off? Well, yeah...of course she did! Weekends off? yep! She liked them, too. Vacation days? Not working 18hour shifts? No....she would never want to work more than 8-12 hours! I told her that it was union workers blood, sweat and tears that made all of that possible and her benefits as well....... People started unions because of unfair working conditions and a lot of people died during the industrial revolution. She looked at me like I was insane when I was done and walked away. Not sure if she was mad at me or rethinking her earlier statements. Just curious, is there anyone here that agrees with me?