Teamster here. You sound a lot like someone who inherited a whole lot of stocks and bonds from mommy and daddy and still live at home. Some of us out here work for a living. Some of us even make a living wage because we are Union. You may kiss my union a--.
BTW: Although opposed to unions, I hold the "Air Teamsters" at ABX in higher regard than the trucking locals. What's it like on the automotive side.
Okay, but I'll need to pay my due first to the guy who lives in a house you payed for.
Unions are destroying America.
Really, sometimes I think the only "conservative" part of some people is the contents of their wallets.
1. Unions are often bad for business. If he were still alive, I could introduce you to a relative of mine who was a shop steward in a steel mill in Pennsylvania for 30 years. After he retired he would freely admit that his union destroyed the steel industry in this country . . . his union had everything you could ask for -- extensive paid vacations, paid holidays (including RELIGIOUS holidays), etc. And yet they would still meet in the union hall at the end of every contract and try to figure out "what else" they could get from the company. The rusting, rotting hulks of these mills all over Pennsylvania are a scathing indictment of the unions that destroyed these companies.
2. Their politics are not only idiotic -- they're often counter-productive, too. One of the major reasons for the demise of labor unions in this country is the fact that they have slowly rendered themselves useless by hitching their wagons to Marxist political causes. Once they started convincing governments to implement public health care, guaranteed pensions, mandatory unemployment benefits, etc., the unions were no longer needed to the extent they once were. Organized labor in this country was simply too successful in lobbying governments to mandate things THAT THE UNIONS THEMSELVES USED TO COLLECTIVELY BARGAIN FOR ON BEHALF OF THEIR MEMBERS.
Hey, when I was in a union, the union steward threatened to beat my a-- the first time he met me. My union 'application' had been misplaced in the mail.
It was a mob dominated union. Do you guys still do that or are you nicer to people now adays?
LOL...How come the union leaders make full wage when you're on strike pay...
How is it that the local IBEW officials always had a job while I didn't as an full paid member in my local...
...Some of us out here work for a living....
My experience with Teamsters is that they spend as much time trying to figure out ways not to work as they actually do working..
Teamsters are generally not comitted to quality and their work product is not up to snuff in todays quality insistant market.
Actually the real money earners aren't union at all.
They like to compete and excel at what they do.
Unions aren't compatible with that at all.