Have to cross this picket line

I've crossed many picket lines over the years starting back in the "old days" when the idiots thought they could intimidate you by getting noisy and violent...They never counted on the quiet guy in the big truck that wouldn't take their ####!

I never have, I never will honor a picket line!

You get between me and my customer or threaten to damage my equipment...Good luck, You'll need it.

Cross the picket line and don't worry about it!

 

Now that's what i'm talking about!

 

Actually, I have been a union member. I was a member of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. UBC still has my respect because it has cut ties with AFL-CIO, the criminal front group for the not-so-underground Socialist movement and Democrat shills.

Teamsters Union buys right into the Socialist propaganda...even to the point of pushing "card check" so they can see who voted which way on elections. What better way to intimidate someone than that someone knowing the union bosses will know how they voted and may cause trouble either for their job or their own personal safety if they vote against the union. Look at post #22 if you don't think the Teamsters are willing to resort to thuggery to get their way:

As I have said before: The company does not owe anyone a job. If they want to fire everybody, they can. And then move to Mexico, as so many others have already done....perhaps because they were run out of the country by union contracts they can no longer afford.

 

I would sometimes agree that they left because of the contracts that could not be afforded except for the fact, that they did not change the big salaries for the big wigs before. After they left, the profits from the reduced cost of employees are then spread among the big wigs. So, was the cost of the employees the real reason?

 

Does it really matter? Fact is, the jobs are gone, there are union and non union people alike standing in unemployment lines while Mexicans now have jobs formerly done here. Who really cares who is getting the money now? Except we know the former workers are not. Perhaps a few concessions from the unions could have prevented it. Who knows....

 

Good question, but I do not believe the concessions would have delayed the inevitable. With the background I have with accounting and planning, they did not decide this over night. Most of the planning to leave the country would have taken a couple of years. So, the negotiations would not have been sincere in the first place.

I have never worked for a union and have mixed feelings about them.

 

I lost my remaining mixed feelings about most unions when UAW struck American Axle a couple years ago. All American Axle was asking for was about a $2/hr concession from the overpaid union guys in order to stay in business. They were already paying those guys almost twice what other workers doing the identical job in other firms were getting...who were also represented by UAW. They stayed out on strike for almost five months and finally took the concession because American Axle was about one week from shutting down their plants and moving away. By the way: the union guys were collecting over $30/hr plus benefits....in Michigan, where it doesn't cost hardly anything to live any more. (I lived there at the time, so don't you dare flame me over this statement. You could buy a 4-bedroom house on a half acre for 20K.)

As a direct result of this greed on the part of the union and its members, the tiny, independent, not rich family company I was with at the time folded and had to declare bankruptcy. Oh, they held on for about another year, but the American Axle contract was the bread and butter of the company. By the time the union guys went back to work, the bell was tolling...and the contract was gone because it needed to be covered by four trucks...and the o/o left for greener pastures. They were down to three company trucks and had to pass on the contract when it was offered again.

Yeah, I know, I'm gonna get it from the union shills here. Knock yourselves out. You won't change my mind or my belief that while the unions had their purpose and did great things at one time, there are now so many laws governing the workplace that their time has passed. Real sweatshops do not exist any more. So try those tired old arguments out on someone who will listen and who might give a crap.

 

Unions only care about the union, not the members. Look at the vote considering the UAW, they voted to keep the benefits and money even at the loss of employment because of bankrupting the auto industry.

My attitude is like theres, I care about my family, not the union. When I drove for WMI Los Angeles back in the end of the 80's the union was cost us 2.75 per hour, without informing the members they had the offer. WMI ended by telling them come back under the old contract rate, or your jobs are off the table. We did not even know about the offer they turned down till we were back at work. The Union still gots its money, only the drivers suffered. SCREW the UNIONS.

 

Newsflash,......The members are the Union!!,....

I don't know why all of the anti-union crowd thinks a Union is some kind of mythical creature,....

It isn't really all that complicated,....

All officers are elected by the membership,..From the shop stewards to the business agents and all the way to the International President,...

If the membership is in anyway unhappy with the direction their local or the national is headed they can vote out the leadership if they so choose,...

 

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Sounds pretty typical, kick out the lazy union and productivity goes up.

Agree, wouldn't even think twice about it. Might even see if any of the protesters would like to make a buck washing my windows.