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If i worked for you I would be a grievance filing machine!

No satellite radio in the track hoe? Grievance
No Dukes mayonnaise in the office kitchen?
Grievance
Being harassed by a moose while on a jobsite?
Grievance
No bug a salt gun for a Christmas bonus?
Grievance
No company issued Anytone or Stryker cb with a Skipshooter antenna?
Grievance.

These are unacceptable working conditions Oxbow and I would nominate @ElmerFudpucker as steward to negotiate our demands.

 

If they were making more here than they could elsewhere they would stay until that wasn't the case. Employee wages are not, nor should they be, proportional to corporate profits. If a company chooses to provide a profit sharing program then that is the extent to which profit and wages should be related.

Top management sells their value to the stockholders. Labor sells their value to management.

There was a time in my line of work where having a union equipment operator meant having the best. That is not the case now. With no value added what do the unions sell.

 

That would be a helluva negotiation party!

I do have 1 Anytone Aeres II. It's in the truck I usually drive. More important that they hear me!!

 

Wasnt nothing to read other than an opinion. But i forgot you cant read.

 

You know what? You guys aren't worth getting banned or derailing this thread. So forget it.

 

Bob: "So, you personally make the products your company sells?"

CEO: "No, that's the employees."

Bob: "So, you personally make sure the shop is running smoothly and the employees are doing their jobs?"

CEO: "No, that's management."

Bob: "So, you personally sell the products?"

CEO: "No, that's sales."

Bob: "So, you personally sign the paychecks?"

CEO: "No, that's payroll."

Bob: "What, exactly...would you say...you DO here?"

CEO: "I run the company! I steer the ship! I take the big risks!"

Bob: "So, if you steer the ship in the wrong direction and the company tanks, that means you're broke?"

CEO: "No, I have a $100M golden parachute..."

Just throwing that out there.

 

Very well said. I think you nailed it.

 

I've never been in a union, don't know much about them. One of my best friends, he and I worked for a pipeline and grading company hauling equipment for 20 years. He is now working in a union, he hauls cars mainly but almost anything at times for the movie industry. He's been there several years now and from what he's told me you are dead on. He said if you're good at what you do and don't mind working crazy hours you really never need the union as far as staying employed. When he's finished with one show another one will pick him up. He said nobody wants to call the hall and say send out a truckdriver that can do special equipment because you my get someone that's never driven anything bigger than 3/4 ton pickup. He said the union is a joke and that industry would be better off without it in his opinion.