Yes. I remember a man being assaulted in Philadelphia a few years ago by union goons and of another man who was hired for a job in Philly who had all his tools and equipment thrown into the Delaware River for daring to work on a job the union wanted.
Yeah. There are bad examples out there for sure. But you can bet your behind that if it werent for labor unions, there wouldnt be a Labor Day, and wed be working for pennies and 6 days a week.
I was cornered by union goons decades ago when I was a teenager and threatened with broken bones if I did not do what the union wanted (I quit that job immediately). I was threatened by union goons again two years ago and I suggested that they might want to back off (for reasons that I’ll leave out of this post) - and they backed off permanently. It’s amazing how good it feels not to bow down to evil thugs!
Unions have sabotaged jobs I have worked at and used government corruption to shut down my work on one job. Sad thing was I was not even competing with them. They just hate free American workers.
I despise Unions for the Leftist Thugrocracy they are.
However I have worked alongside some Unions that are professional and meet the quality standards I consider essential. But invariably they are slow, expensive and repressive to their workers.
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Another thing, if they are caught working for a non-union company in their trade, they are fired from the union and the union has the right to sue them for the cost of their apprenticeship training.
In other words, the union owns you for the rest of your working life.
I was often the subject of a Union Grievance, at first, because I did not understand their rules governing the control of their employees. And later just because they needed to teach me a lesson. Any time I entered the shop floor to discuss a design with the machinists, the Union Steward would interject himself between me and the person I wanted to see. I had to ask the Union Steward my question, he would decide if the question was valid and then ask the machinist. The machinist would reply. The Steward would then repeat the answer to me.
The only thing the Union ever did for me was give me a day off. The Machinist Union had gone on strike. While pulling into the company parking lot, one of the machinists yelled that I would be lucky to have a car at the end of the day. This was a guy that I had worked cordially with for 2 years. I turned around, went home and called in saying that I had been threatened by the Union and was not coming in. I went to the beach.
The environment created by the Unions was part of the reason I left aerospace and moved on to Union-Free Silicon Valley and had a great career.