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WHAT IF REALTORS WENT ON STRIKE?
July 21, 2010 11:15 AM
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Watching the lack of progress on the Virginia Road repaving project (due to the truckers strike, which may actually be over), I found myself daydreaming about the prospect of all real estate agents forming a union and staging a nationwide strike, for higher commissions, of course. Just think of it each and every licensee walking a picket line or sitting on lawn chairs like the truckers union does. The image sends chills down my spine! In my reverie I contemplated taking an extra 10% or so from the greedy brokers that we work for, making them grovel and sweat, taking the already meager profit margins right away from them. Maybe we could also force the “man” to provide benefits such as health insurance or even pensions. I was really getting into this euphoric daydream when like a bucket of ice water thrown in my face, I woke up, came to my senses as it were. None of us Realtors are employees; we’re independent contractors. We have no union. We can’t strike. Even if I could strike, I wouldn’t make any money during the strike. I’m already not making any money due to the economy, so why bother? Some real estate offices are a lot like the truckers and the concrete workers recently on strike. You’ll have 3 or 4 real estate agents in the office sitting around eating donuts and drinking coffee instead of making calls. You’ve seen a similar scene in the construction zones, I’m sure.
The federal government hands these jamokes a gift with our tax dollars (or is it money they just printed?), gives them legitimate work to do (although I still question them re-paving a perfectly good road like Virginia Road as “legitimate”) and like a bunch of complete INGRATES, they go on strike for three weeks during prime construction season! Inconveniencing everyone who drives anywhere; they don’t care. It’s all about the greed. I’ve watched teacher’s strikes, garbage workers strikes, airline personnel strikes. It’s all a power play, the unions muscling the owners. The usual service recipients are of necessity inconvenienced. I guess that’s where the leverage of a work stoppage comes in. I liked it when the air traffic controllers union was busted. Did my heart good. Who did they think they were, crippling air line travel, one of our basic rights? May all the unions suffer the same fate! When the unions get what they want (more of this, more of that) somebody pays. And that someone is always US. They win, we lose. I say get your butts back to work, be satisfied that you have a job while so many others can’t find work. Stop being pigs and actually do a days work for a days pay. Be happy you’re not on a straight commission like us real estate agents!
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COMMENTS
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Bruce, you forgot to mention we can't collect unemployment either!
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Valarie Werderitch, Crystal Lake (Jul 23, 2010 11:55 AM)
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