Posted on 09/05/2011 6:00:57 AM PDT by TSgt
The unions are a start, but there's also Hamtramc as well as the mass desolation.
Detroit is a monument to labor unions and “progressive” politics. It need a large plaque stating such.
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We had some excellent products {in the mid 60s} and when I asked my manager why our delivery times were 2 to 3 times longer than our competition, he said our production facilities and schedules were controlled because they were union.
I left the company and never regretted it.
Unions are a major cause of what ails this country.
There was a time when some in the USW had a clause {piece work} which allowed merit pay based on productivity.
They soon found that this showed how much the better worker could make and how the lazy, sleepy, drunken bum was shown to be a lazy, sleepy, drunken bum.
They first put the strong arm on the better workers, trying to slow them down, and when that didn't work, they "claimed that management screwed the working man" by "taking away" the merit based pay.
Nothing could have been further from the truth.
Unions are communistic in their design.
Why is this? No other country seems to have this problem.
That reflects my experience.
Before I went to college, I was a roofer. We had a small crew — fast, efficient, exceedingly professional. We worked very hard, got the job done quickly and the customer was always happy.
Most of us were hired for a project roofing the homes of a large US Air Force base. This was our first union job.
We began by working at our normal pace, but were admonished by the old union hands that we were “working yourselves out of a job.” The pace was slow — deliberately held back by the old union hands who made it their business to milk the contract as long as possible. Of course, this was a public contract and the losers were the taxpayers, but that was of no interest to them.
-——Why is this?——
First, the political connections of unions to government is not uniquely American. I would argue it might not even be as great as in say France.
American unions have ceased to be for the workers. The workers are the conduit, the pipe if you will, through which funds flow from the employer to the Democrat Party. Unions exist today as a funding mechanism for the liberals. The unions have no other purpose. Any one who says so is a liar or ignorant or both
The Democrat Party is a Criminal Enterprise. That is or should be the way to look at the great American Working man. He is cannon fodder to be slain for money
It’s a sign of American health that your unionized companies go broke.
This is because in America the unionized companies have non-unionized competition, and (until recently anyway) they didn’t get bailed out by the Government.
In many other countries the unions are part of the landscape.
I worked at a state national guard base when I was in my early 20’s. One public union guy there actually told me to stop working so we could “save work” for the next day.
We sat on our butts the rest of the day. I was bored out of my mind.
Exactly. Democrats - Thieves, Thugs, Thralls and Thickheads.
“They might be giants.”
There’s a great Peter Sellers movie about unions, called, “I’m All Right, Jack”.
The movie pretty much sums up the mentality.
Organized labor in America has long been linked to organized crime.
They do, you just either don't hear about it or the company is taken over by the state and then has no need of profit.
The exception is Japan but they are the exception to a lot of things.
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