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To: apillar

F unions.


7 posted on 07/13/2018 4:31:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
F unions.

Oh I agree. I have had the misfortune of being a member of three different unions early in my work career (which remarkably I still get junk mail from, even though it's been over a decade). I had no option to opt out as West Virginia wasn't a right to work state (though it is now). Two of the three unions did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, over the roughly four years I worked there I never saw a union representative once (though the dues came out of my paycheck like clockwork). The third union was even worse, they union stewards basically ran the place and management was so cowed they would never contradict them, at various times I got chewed out by the union steward for "working too hard" "not taking my full breaks" and "crossing crafts" (basically doing something that needed done that wasn't one of my responsibilities.) Thankfully I'm far enough along in my career that I no longer have to deal with unions...

8 posted on 07/13/2018 4:59:55 PM PDT by apillar
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Something very anecdotal - was in a waiting room the other day and Let's Make a Deal was on a TV. Wayne chooses some nerdy looking girl in a banana costume out of the crowd, he asks, so what do you do? She says she's an attorney - Wayne asks what kind of attorney, she goes contract & negotiations, union stuff!! Woooo!! and starts jumping around like a loon. The audience just looks at her. Kinda reminiscent of the scene in Animal House where Blutarsky yells "Let's goooooo!", runs out of the room and everyone just blankly sits there. Safe to say the audience wasn't in love with unions. Or maybe attorneys. Or perhaps both.
 
 

12 posted on 07/13/2018 6:52:58 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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