No, not ahead of it's time. Many issues today have lasted many decades. You were just "born yesterday" (a great movie from 1950 actually), in comparison. No offense there. Not many of us know how great the USA was before we were born, and before unions.
I worked for a factory back in the 90's that made parts for another factory who was talking union. The owner told the people you vote the union in, and they will shut it down. They voted in the union, and 2 weeks later, they shut it down and moved to Mexico.
With one yank, Travis pulls 2 rabbits out of a hat. He gets rid of the union and gets Mom to pad up the station. The thinking individual wins the day again. :)
Unions are far from perfect, but the common American worker has seen how their wages went down as unions disappeared and corporate profits hit records. Then came the pandemic and presto, workers stood up to the companies and unions have made comebacks and wages have climbed.
I've been pro-union since the 70s, and what I see happening in the USA right now disgusts me. The workers of the country are what makes America so successful and they deserve to be paid good wages. Everyone deserves to live in a decent place if they work 40 hours a week. The fact that so many work more than 40 hours per week and cannot afford anything makes me so angry.
21:57, this moment blew me away the first time I saw it, and in a way still does. Some might think that Andy was acting in his own best interest to save his job, but I think he genuinely cared about WKRP so much that he sabotaged the union vote to save the station and felt that in the long run the station would benefit from money finally being invested from Mrs. Carlsen. Given the only other option was to shut down the station (if Mrs. Carlsen made good on her threat), he did what was best for everybody at the station.
@@floatsting20 TV has so much power in manipulating how we think, the guy who invented the picture tube would not let his family watch it. I found that researching "who invented the TV".
@@tomwatson9032 Don't bother with Mr. Sawyer, he seems to enjoy nothing more than perusing the comment sections so that he can belittle anyone that make a comment which he can ridicule, *he's a natural born A-HOLE!*
@@jenniferreid8515 the deal was that Andy would stop the union and Mama Carlson would invest more in the station. Later Mama unilaterally expanded the deal to get Andy to do more favors.
Barney Miller, Welcome Back Carter, The Jeffersons, Goodtimes, etc etc all had episodes of social changes and concerns of the times in the 70s and early 80s...WKRP is a great show, its no different when playing political issues.
Imagine an owner choosing from the goodness of their heart to give significant raises across the board. Hard to suspend disbelief watching this from 2022 when the worker is getting squeezed harder than ever by unnecessary owners.
Why are these episodes "cropped" here on RU-vid? Is that part of the reason they're allowed to be here in the first place? It's very distracting when torsos are halved, and credits are unseen...
I remember that song look for the union label, when we had textiles made in America like fieldcrest and Royal Velvet. Say hi to NAFTA that sent our jobs to South America and China.
Easiest way to foil a union starting is to offer wages and benefits better than the union. Now your employees are happy, you will get the pick of best for hiring, you and your employees won't have to deal/spend time/money with union and you get all the jobs the companies won't while a strike is going on. Cement company in my town started this policy when I was a kid (my Dad talked about it because he knew the owner) and it grew into one of largest cement companies over the years. My Dad did the same and we ended up with the best professional workers from other countries working for us. Best born American workers tended to all join the union at the time.
Years ago the union tried to organize the young company i worked for. It got voted down by a large margin. After the vote the company adopted many things that were in union contracts but we didn't have to pay any union dues. For example they started a retirement plan where the company would match 100% of what you put into a retirement fund up to 10% of your salary. Not having a union was better than having a union because a company feared the threat of a union more than having a union.
Unions have their place. Some companies, like Westinghouse, really took care of its employees and had loyal workers, but some companies, like Ford, would fire you for using a company rag to wipe grease off your hands. Unions protect those workers and help employees make a living wage and have health benefits.
When a radio station is sold, it's almost a 100% guarantee that everybody will be fired. It usually changes format, and country DJs dont know rock n roll, who can't function with talk radio... I was married to this for a long time. I know more than I ever wanted to know.
It's a hoot how 'revolutionary' bands killed the music unions around here. These 'revolutionary' bands crowed their 'victory over The Man' ... who used to pay bands $250 a live slot because the union made him pay for musicians doing their jobs. Now, after the 'revolution', The Man charges bands $250 to play onstage for a half-hour. FTW
1:05-1:07 Some pretty bad dubbing there. Johnny is supposed to say "Start me up" because that's the name of the Rolling Stones song that's supposed to be playing, but Shout! Factory couldn't re-license the song. So they used a sound-alike instead.
it is implied that he played hard ball with her to get money for the workers and the station, but his part of the deal was to do everything he could to squash the union.
Mrs. Carlson was no joke she was a cold woman and ruthless to the core. She always wanted her son to be a failure . Because she saw her late husband (Mr. Carlens' father) as a failure.
@@MrMenefrego1 You missed my joke. A "appraisal" is a determination of how much something is worth. I don't consider her a cold ruthless woman because she is against a union of her station. I consider her American and honorable. As far as her wanting her son to be a failure, that is only your speculation of the character. Unions are very destructive.
Andy got the employees to vote down the union, (somehow). She explained it. But what I don't understand is why Andy was acting like he was mad that he made the deal work. I guess he thought of it like blackmail, but she had every right to sell the station, or just dissolve it if there was no buyer. She gave him the opportunity to save it, and even put more investment into it. He did that, and he acted mad. A bit mixed up.
@@EarthSurferUSA Thanks very much for this. I guess he could've been agitated because interfering with the employees' process weighed on his conscience. Or because he was capitulating to a threat that for all anyone knows was just that.
Travis 19:00 "I'll make a deal with the devil to get her to put some money into this station.". (calling Mrs. Carlson the devil) Mom should have fired him, before she put some money into the station. This is some very confused writing,---of course, from union writers.
Andy wasn't saving his ass. He was looking out for the station. If you watch episodes after this you'll see Andy's interaction with Mrs. Carlson with regards to 'KRP.
Jude Lewis I worked for a private company in 1982. It went union and 4-1/2 years later we all lost our jobs. Union refs and reps, who knew nothing of our agency’s work, caused so many problems that the owner gave up and closed up shop. I think the portrayal was very accurate. The idea was indeed floated that unionizing could cause more problems that would end up costing us our jobs and that is exactly what happened. Before they showed up to “organize” us, It was easy to get rid of the troublemakers… After they showed up we were saddled with poor performing workers who could drag out the grievance process so long that we would simply be bleeding money. To this day I’ve never forgiven the unions for coming into our once a peaceful company.
@@jeffclaterbaugh6415 That's a tragic story, and fully unnecessary too. I worked for a meat packing company in Illinois many years ago, at a period in American history when unions were indeed useful. However, in the 21st century unions seem to have lost their place and their way in 21st century America. We need our industry, (the over 70-thousand factories which left for Asia) to return to the continental United States, then unions will again have a proper roll to play, but not in all shops.
@@MrMenefrego1 I am 57 with a small business and been in manufacturing since 1984. I worked for over 20 no-union shops while gaining 2 engineering degrees, and still lived just over poverty due to the outsourcing of our opportunity to communism. In the middle of that time, I was down and out, between jobs again, and I sent a very impressive resume to GM Fisher body plant, (that is now closed). If a shop is hiring, I get an interview, and not a peep from the GM plant. I did not know anybody there. All I had was talent. Glad I nver got the job, because I know I would not have learned what all I had in order to start my own business. Where is the real opportunity with a union? You are just considered a "worker", and in manufacturing, you will never get smart enough to start your own business. My bosses would laugh at a union guy looking for a job at any of my non-union shops. They would demand $30.00/hr and had no skill. They were screwed!
@@sirvilhelmofyonderland No, it's American profiteers whom you worship who sold out your country ... and you worship them for doing so and wish they'd sold you too. It's really weird how anti-unionists are willing to be slaves; or have others in slavery.
that`s a big lure for fresh water fish...it can be used with big pike musky and sturgeon . my father`s been building them for at least 50 years.gps has really changed sturgeon and musky fishing we can catch one and release it year after year.we can keep an eye on the population without harming or tagging them.
trying to pass socialism as a form of capitalism? any one in Hollywood ever read Adam Smith? who takes the risks? the employees? amazing how we look back and all these shows as entertaining as they were have created the America of entitlements we see today!
@@floatsting20 Entitlement mentality: Thinking something is owed to you that you did not earn just because somebody else produced it,---like health care. But we are entitled to something: The right to use our minds to create all the great things we now think we have a right to, and actually compete.
A guy a know, union "worker" told me that is was the unions that built the middle class. I corrected him by telling him it was the people who created the factories in our free society that got mankind out of poverty.
David Carpenter I learned… Big time! Had a wonderful career going at a company I loved… Then the union showed up at our once vibrant and profitable company and proceeded to destroy it.
2020. are there still unions out there? whoever killed them did a thorough job.
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Yes, Unions are still alive - and PROSPERING!! I just retired from The Carpenter's Union in April of this year. And I still can't stop laughing at the anti-Union assholes who still have to work past their 60's. What a great life to have as a scab!!
Lots of radio stations don't air the end of songs that have that long after the last lyric. Especially if they are long songs to begin with. In the late 70s and early 80s, radio stations wanted songs no longer than 4 minutes.
@@floatsting20 I never said early 60s. I say late 70s and early 80s. When FM started taking over. The 60s were all about experimental crap with ultra long songs. But then radio stations decided that, as a business, they wanted to make money. Hell, Billy Joel even sings about this in The Entertainer with the line "It was a beautiful song, but it ran to long. "If you gonna have a hit, we gotta make it fit. So they cut it down to 3:05" which was an actual thing said to him about Piano Man. Columbia told him that he would never get on the radio with a song that was over 5 1/2 minutes long.
@@DarkEagle-vx9hd when I was a DJ in a college bar I made a song that was already a mix of two songs together. It was two songs that everyone always played together anyway. So I just mixed them and burned it to a CD. Gave me over 8 minutes to go to the bathroom, or get a beer or water. Plus, it was a perfect mix since I was able to undo and redo it over until I got it just right. All the other DJs asked for me to burn it to another CD for them.
Watch a documentary on Karen Silkwood and get back to us on what sort of institution is supposed to check unbridled corporate profit-making at the expense and the health of workers. Until unions were able to have real political power the U.S. did not see prosperity extend to and create a large and strong middle class and as unions have lost power continuously starting with Reagan the middle class has been shrinking ever since.
Everything you have is because of the union movement 40 hour week Medical / dental / prescription plans You are an idiot if you think Your employer gave these things to you willingly
@@sbains560 Actually the 40 hr week was introduced by Henry Ford. Then, in 1943, the Internal Revenue Service decided that employer-based health insurance should be exempt from taxation. You really are not very bright. Do some research.
