you really are out of touch with how unions operate...


so many times I have posted that the F-ups last a few weeks after being hired...


you HAVE to pull your own weight
(period)



now regarding union wages hurting a company -

I have also posted about an interview with the CEO of toyota (that was broadcast last summer on 60 minutes).


in that interview the question was posed

"why do american automakers have such a hard time unions?"

his reply was simple -

he said that in mopst countrys union labor was the norm - but the point people miss is that at GM for example there are over 430 employess that make more than he does (he is CEO) -

american autmakers are notorious for being top heavy and having 50 vice presidents with 3 million a year pensions and stupid pay while on duty...


(as always - 2 sides to every story)

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I am non union but I will agree with that.Lots of compant pay office and CEOs to much in wages bonuses etc.then when something like Enron happens whos fault is it.

I can't speak for any other Union but the Operating Engineers local 150 out of Chicago and there were MANY lazy arses when i was part of them. I was always getting hammered by the BA's for doing TO MUCH and making the rest look bad!! PISSED ME RIGHT OFF!! If a bucket pin was squealing on my excavator i would get out and grease it instead of waiting upwards of an hour for an oiler to come out to do it or just keep running it like most and ruining a pin. That's a NO NO according to the BA as it wasn't my job. F^($ HIM! It's my machine assigned to me and if it's broke i'm not working! I would also get out of the excavator and help the laborers hand much around gas mains Etc. and would get spanked for that for the same reason. Screw em all!

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My favorite Union experience, was SF postal service.

One guy to open the door and pull the dock plate. One guy to drive the forklift and unload, another guy to count the bins...done.

Guy #1 returns, pulls the dock plate. Then ANOTHER guy signs the bills.

4 F##### people to off load one trailer !!

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hey i was a teamster for 12 yrs an now wanna get into a union shop with a class A permit .any suggestions on getting the training .thanks tim

there are 3 threads dedicated to this - and this link takes you to the last guy I know of that went sponsered to get his cdl...

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I struggle with the argument about quality at Wal Mart. Many of its products are made overseas, just like at just about every other place that we shop at.
As far as food quality...their food products are just the same exact thing by the brand name companies, just wrapped in different packaging. Case in point, I worked in their frozen department and they sold blue bunny ice cream in those gallon containers. They also sold a cheaper version of the same exact ice cream. Ingredients were all the same...etc; especially the mailing address in Iowa! Their meats are not third world exports as some rumor mills would like you to believe, but most (if not all) of their meats are Tyson made.

Lots of people think that Wal Mart is full of cheap stuff. Well they are, but not anymore than anywhere else. Its just that their buying power is so large that they can buy a ton of product and save on the quantity of what they order.

Its not that Im anti-union or anything (although some would argue I am, lol)...Im for competitive pricing. Im not going to go somewhere where the products price is overly inflated for what it is. One could argue quality and so could I. Companies have quality controls and specifications. I don't think one worker over another worker can apply a different quality towards that same end product.

As far as their employees...I mean seriously. Its not a (here I go again with the skill thing) a high skilled job, stocking shelves, ringing up customers. I don't need to pay more for a product just because of the employees being union or non union. They get paid a competitive pay in their market for what they do and they have a good chance of working up the rungs to higher positions.

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If you want a perfect demonstration of unions at work, watch a city crew fixing potholes in the street.

Normally 5 guys leaning on shovels or sitting in the truck while one does the work.

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well the one working is normALLY THE "MINORITY"

you see all unions are based on an extreme racist principle - and we are trying to keep the "botherman" down through enticement of bennies.


so ronno - you drive a foreign car?

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2 U.S. made and one foreign.

What does that have to do with anything we are talking about?

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