Mitt Romney: Labor unions play an important role in our society

hotair ^ | 2/21/12 | tina korbe

[DaveA37]

All the more reason to NOT vote for Romney. He sounds just like Buckwheat.

[liberalh8ter]

Mitt's campaign reminds me of Obama 08. He tells you up front how much of a danger he is to American freedom yet people are still oblivious to it. The only thing I can say about 08 and 12 is that they completely obliterated any notion of a 2 party system.

[CASchack]

“I love trees.”
“I love lakes.”
“I love cars.”
“And I love unions.”

[ChuteTheMall]

Most of America’s union members are government employees who BUILD NOTHING.

But they succeed in getting democrats elected, so they are far from harmless.

[Drill Thrawl]

Drill shakes head.

[Rearden]

“Those types of people...” must be trained in a classroom setting. The Union Locals are currently the most efficient and cost effective way to teach apprentices.

You can easily check, but there is a huge difference between the electric panel in your basement or garage and the control panel of a nuclear reactor. Both require the expertise of an electrician to install correctly. The difference in skill levels between the tradesmen are at least vast.

Electricians, carpenters, pipe fitters, iron workers, plumbers. If you need one of these guys to work on your house, the phone book should locate one for you in a few minutes. If you need to build a bridge to span a gorge a hundred feet deep, you might not want to go with the lowest bidder. “Those kind of people” aren’t just hanging around waiting to fix your toilet.

[Rearden]

It used to be illegal for public employees to unionize, it needs to be so again. The trade unions are not your enemy here. The managers of such unions are, and always have been, scum for the most part. At the least corrupt, at worst criminal.

The workers have hard jobs, often working long hours, hundreds of miles from home for weeks at a time. They are a far cry from the slugs sitting on GM’s production line or the asshats at SEIU.

[DH]

Soooooooo? With your extremely small amount of common sense displayed in your reply to me, you are saying that ALL of the tradesmen in RIGHT TO WORK states are vastly inferior to Union scum?

Well, that’s what you essentially said, isn’t it? You are nothing but a union hack and always will be for union mentality cannot be changed.

[Rearden]

I’m saying that there are projects happening all over the world, RTW states included, that are beyond the capacity of a large percentage of tradesmen, yes.

I can say this because for over forty years, I have owned one of the largest construction companies in the Mid-Atlantic area. We are now, have been in the past, and will be for the foreseeable future, a non-union company. As a general contractor, there are projects that our in house tradesmen are more than qualified to handle and others which will require outside help. On some projects, I wouldn’t be able to get bonded without certification of some of the labor.

Now then, exactly where do you draw your extraordinary depth of knowledge of the status of skilled labor in this country? What have you built lately?

Not that it matters to me, but it might to you, I have never voted for a Democrat in my life. I don’t know how our workers vote, it’s really none of my business.

[DH]

What have you built lately?

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I’m a founder and owner of an industrial electrical and electronic service and manufacturing business. My background is electrical engineering and electronic engineering. My education and experience is vast. The products that I have invented and currently manufacture are many. My experience and education began in 1966.

Being an owner of an industrial business since 1979 and pouring my own blood and sweat into the business, I’ve grown to hate unions, their socialist structure, lack of “real” technical knowledge and corrupt leadership on all levels. They are socialists with thuggery to force it on all who are free...employees and employers alike.

I would be very interested in these “only union highly trained specialists can do the job” functions. I didn’t realize there were any that the common highly educated and experienced general free (non-union) technicians did not have the ability to perform. I believe the union name for these non-union people is “SCABS.”

When you make the statement that on some jobs only union specialists are available and that no non-union specialists are available, is the fact that your business is held hostage by unions and the union has control of both your business and the project...nothing more.

You state “We are now, have been in the past, and will be for the foreseeable future, a non-union company.” Well, people who aid, abet and cave to unions won’t be non-union much longer. Obama and the weak Republicans will see to that.