Posted on 11/16/2012 11:32:33 AM PST by Morgana
What unions are doing in America today, not only to the companies but to the workers they supposedly represent, is unconscionable. It’s sad that a majority of their own members can’t or refuse to see that these unions are not truly on their side and in fact have done much to destroy capitalism. Unions have become the people they were originally formed to oppose.
Unions are a socialist concept. The whole concept of unions pits management against the workers. The assumption is that management is an evil force whose sole purpose is the abuse of the worker. While this may have been true in the early days of the industrial revolution, it is not as common today.
The union philosophy is predicated on the notion that everyone should be paid the same regardless of the quality of their work. Who wants to do a better job than someone who is getting paid the same amount for doing the same job poorly? Obviously, the quality of the product will suffer.
Unions now are big, powerful lobbies, whose sole purpose is to keep people who are not in the union from working, while demanding higher pay and benefits for those who are. They keep inadequate workers on the job, but do not reward the better workers. They create unnecessary jobs by dividing the labor of one person into the work of three. The man that turns on the lights, can not pick up the trash. The man that turns the bolts can not also put on a tire. They have driven the prices up on everything, while their ‘management’ gets fat on the pensions of the workers.
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Bob less than 6% of the work force is union. The war is over. We won. Hostess is an anomaly.
“Bob less than 6% of the work force is union. The war is over. We won. Hostess is an anomaly.”
Who’s we? Not me. The war is over for me when the unions are at 0%, and there are no more Hostess’s, or HUNDREDS of similar stories.
But I do agree this is progress - with the 10,000 or so union idiots at Hostess gone, we are getting closer to my goal of workplace freedom.
Another union made disaster in the news, that the media avoid is the USPS.
USPS unions:
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) part of the AFL-CIO
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, a division of LIUNA part of the AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) part of the AFL-CIO
National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)
Plus there are probably unions for the maintenance and custodians of the USPS facilites large and small. Unions for the transportation/distribution long haul and short haul of mail. etc....
The “efficiency” of the USPS can be illustrated by a recent experience my parents went through.
The local 911 emergency department of the county sheriff took it upon themselves to change my parents street address. This became my paretns’ new mailing address. No physical change happened changed address on the mail box etc.
My parents filled out a change of address form. Now, even though the only real change was the street number address, not the physical location of my parents hous all mail with the “old address” on it has to go across state to the nearest distribution center to have the new address affixed on it, aka adress change label, then it is sent to the same location i.e. mail box. To add insult to this sheriff’s 911 department induced change of address, the regular postal carrier went on vacation and tols the carrier subbing while he was on vacation to hold all forwarded mail until he returned from vacation. So all bills, checks, bank statements et al. were on hold without my parents agreement or knowledge. My mom luckily, after too days of nothing but junk mail call the USPS 800 number and after 30 minutes of phone gymnastics talked with the regionel carrer who undid the vacation hold, but was to prevent the delay of forwarded mail from ahving to go across the state to the closest distribution center, thus delay receipt of the mail by my paretns for 7 to 14 days.
So just add all the extra cost the USPS incurss and one gets the idea of waste. This doesn’t even take into account the “pensions/benefits” that the USPS is failing to pay to the tune of over $15 billion this year so far.
Unions are dinosaurs 100 years past the usefullness.
Another union made disaster in the news, that the media avoid is the USPS.
USPS unions:
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) part of the AFL-CIO
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, a division of LIUNA part of the AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union (APWU) part of the AFL-CIO
National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)
Plus there are probably unions for the maintenance and custodians of the USPS facilites large and small. Unions for the transportation/distribution long haul and short haul of mail. etc....
The “efficiency” of the USPS can be illustrated by a recent experience my parents went through.
The local 911 emergency department of the county sheriff took it upon themselves to change my parents street address. This became my paretns’ new mailing address. No physical change happened changed address on the mail box etc.
My parents filled out a change of address form. Now, even though the only real change was the street number address, not the physical location of my parents house all mail with the “old address” on it has to go across state to the nearest distribution center to have the new address affixed on it, aka adress change label, then it is sent to the same location i.e. mail box. To add insult to this sheriff’s 911 department induced change of address, the regular postal carrier went on vacation and told the carrier subbing while he was on vacation to hold all forwarded mail until he returned from vacation. So all bills, checks, bank statements et al. were on hold without my parents agreement or knowledge. My mom luckily, after two days of nothing but junk mail call the USPS 800 number and after 30 minutes of phone gymnastics talked with the regional carrer who undid the vacation hold, but was unable to prevent the delay of forwarded mail from having to go across the state to the closest distribution center, thus delay receipt of the mail by my parents for 7 to 14 days.
So just add all the extra cost the USPS incurrs and one gets the idea of waste. This doesn’t even take into account the “pensions/benefits” that the USPS is failing to pay to the tune of over $15 billion this year so far.
Unions are dinosaurs 100 years past the usefullness.
Double post arggggg. A additional note. My parents live in a right to work state but the USPS is “special”./s
I do read Sowell and much else. You did not contribute to the covesation with “slogan” and “non-concept”.
A living wage is that which allows a person to comfortably feed, educate, own property, pursue reasonable R and R obtain medical care and provide for one’s old age and for a family if applicable, as a start.
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