What do all these bad companies have in common?

re: UAW-Try 95% of your pay and 100% of your medical premiums if your laid off-for up to 2 yrs!!! My sister was laid off from Ford. Is it any wonder a decent new car costs over 30K nowadays? Finally states like Wi. & NJ are standing up to them!!

 

A lot of drivers are anti-union because they have had to deal with the lazy stupid overpaid work avoiding union bums at places they pick up. Jealousy? Maybe. If you have to work hard for your money and you see some braindead moron making $35/hr sitting in a breakroom at a Budweiser plant,it might disturb you a bit.

 

I heard about this guy, Jimmy who told a horror story about the union. Today I believe he is the world record holder for holding his breath under water the longest O_O

 

Drive safe

 

The union company I worked for went under long before they did and being that they are out of business no need to mention them! The union got more interested in signing dog track workers.

 

Mr. Dylan pretty much nails it.

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/union-sundown

 

Proud Teamster here (23 years). My dad was a Teamster for almost 30 years. We were never forced to pay dues. We paid them gladly. The union represented our interest on our behalf. That's their job.

I'm disappointed at the anti-union bashing in these forums. It does no good to try and educate those people because they just don't understand what the working conditions were like in this country before organized labor cleaned it all up.

People were working in third world conditions for ten (10) cents a hour 12 to 14 hours per day 6 and 7 days a week. No health insurance. No vacations. No safety protection.

The unions got us the 40 hour work week with overtime. They got us greatly improved working conditions which filtered heavily over into the non-union segment of the country. They got workers health insurance. They got the minimum wage. They got OSHA started to better improve safety in the work place. Before that, employers did not care how many people they got hurt or killed.

Before the unions, there were only two classes of people in this country. The wealthy and the working poor. The unions raised the working poor up to comfortable middle class standards. And this nation was the better for it. Soon as the working poor started making more money thanks to the unions, they started buying more and more consumer goods. Our economy took off and the rest is history.

Now, thanks to the crooked politicians, criminals on wall street and greedy corporate CEO's, our country is headed back to a time of massive unemployment, low wages and no benefits. Consumers are not buying as much now because they lost their jobs and if they have a job they are only making 1/3 what they were earning so their buying power has been sharply curbed.

None of this has had anything to do with unions or union workers. I really don't know how to get thru to the people in these forums who bash unions without fully understanding what they are talking about and the history of this country.

 

What happened at GM had nothing to do with the union or the union workers. All of the car companies, domestic and foreign were hurt when we took the great fall. People stop buying cars when they lose their jobs and their homes. Our government and wall street is what did the damage.

GM has regrouped, is doing well and is currently paying back all of the money loaned to them by our government.

When Chrysler under Iacoca borrowed millions from the U.S. government to save Chrysler, they paid it all back in a few short years.

These have been good investments. Saved a lot of jobs.

Japan, Germany, Italy, Korea have been subsidizing their auto makers for years. They have been supporting an uneven playing field against us for years.

 

Thank you friend for setting all this straight. I have hit a brick wall with all the anti-union people in these forums. Trying to educate them seems futile.

I had a driver at a local truck stop approach me one day wanting to sell me his CB. He was working for a non-union company and needed money to try and make it back home.

I see these guys living in their trucks 24/7 starving on $250/$300 per week and they are bashing union drivers earning over $1000.00 per week with full paid benefits and home on the weekends.

 

While I was 24/7 this weekend, I noticed union trks out there also. ABF, UPS, and YRC ; I,m tired of paying the way for you by being harrased by a deadbeat unionized goverment welfare recipient, DOT.