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Highballin · **^ Top** #**371** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by latanea

Actually Highballin - walmart workers at a Canadian location voted to join the teamsters -

and wal mart shut the store down - and sold the property to a land developer.

(2005-2006)

store was open less than a year...

Well I guess Wal-Mart showed them who owned the store didnt they.Thats the risk people take.Because some Big Company can just shut down and that means no pay check or did their union pay unemployment get them a job??Wal-Mart should use less people doing nothing an pay more and have bennies for sure But as you see they would rather shut a store down than do that.

Hilltop · **^ Top** #**372** 10.12.2008

Here is the thing..Unions do not help anyone but them selfs..

I find them to be greedy and drive the market up along with the price of goods..

Just look at the US auto makers and there unions is a prime example of why people are buying foreign cars and non-union made cars

latanea · **^ Top** #**373** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Hilltop

Here is the thing..Unions do not help anyone but them selfs..

I find them to be greedy and drive the market up along with the price of goods..

Just look at the US auto makers and there unions is a prime example of why people are buying foreign cars and non-union made cars

most foreign cars are made by union employees...

all german cars are - and all japanese cars are...

Markk9 · **^ Top** #**374** 10.12.2008

Unions help force companies to keep unwanted and unproductive workers.

Mark

Hilltop · **^ Top** #**375** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Markk9

Unions help force companies to keep unwanted and unproductive workers.

Mark

With that in Mind production gets slower..Quailty not that great ether

knighton5 · **^ Top** #**376** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by FullTruckerEffect

I am happy, I make a decent living. It sickens me to watch guys who have to cheat a logbook just to make enough to survive.

I am curious, knighton5, have you ever worked a Union job? I don't feel like digging through all of your 400-some posts to find out...

Ive never worked for a union, so I only have one side of the story. If my company went union I would probably be happy, I would make more and have better benefits. But thats not the case, so I will defend the otherside.. Overall, I dont agree with the unions squeezing more money out of a company which forces them to shut there doors or move out of the country. They force people to shop at cheaper stores. I'm a hard worker, I dont need a union to protect me, I can climb the ladder with my dependability and know how, I pass the lazy people or unproductive workers. If I was union I would be stuck in a senoirity list for years. This is just a couple examples. With that said, I will support ALL OTR companies to be union though.

Until then, I'm happy.

Gio · **^ Top** #**377** 10.12.2008

Union membership is down as a percentage of all workers and most union jobs are in the government. Workers wages are also down compared to todays costs. Coincidence?

Highballin · **^ Top** #**378** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Hilltop

With that in Mind production gets slower..Quailty not that great ether

Hilltop some of these union made cars and trucks have a lot of stickers on them.Assembled are Made in Mexico.I took the dash apart in a 2006 Peterbilt every wiring harness had that on it and other parts did to.Does Mexico have unions???

Hilltop · **^ Top** #**379** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Highballin

Hilltop some of these union made cars and trucks have a lot of stickers on them.Assembled are Made in Mexico.I took the dash apart in a 2006 Peterbilt every wiring harness had that on it and other parts did to.Does Mexico have unions???

Yeahh they sent jobs there because of greedy unions..

1/2 of the Chevy trucks are made there now..Pretty sad isn't it

Highballin · **^ Top** #**380** 10.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Hilltop

Yeahh they sent jobs there because of greedy unions..

1/2 of the Chevy trucks are made there now..Pretty sad isn't it

Yea But I am a Ford man now I have drove all the full size P.U.s They all have their good and bad points.I will add this.I had a rough riding F450 kept blowing tail lite bulbs.They were made in Mexico with a small filiment.Found some old ones I had stored for a rainy day made in the USA.Bigger filiment No more trouble.

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