Posted on 03/14/2008 7:44:33 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
As you know, both Hillary and Obama have proposals out there that would eliminate union elections in the workplace. These proposals would institutionalize union intimidation and coercion in efforts to unionize workplaces. Now .. why do I have a problem with unions? Just read this email:
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Boortz, I witnessed this event at my place of employment and was astonished at what happened. This is what Hillary and her gang want to do to us. I work in a large corporation that has both Union and non union employees. One of my coworkers was moving their desk, to one desk over (in a cubicle land). They were instructed to call facilities (which is Unionized). He thought, forget about it, it will take them a week to move me, I'll just move myself. So he completed the task at hand, was able to complete it in 1 hour. Well, some of the union employees found out and complained. The union filed a grievance against him and he has now lost his job. This was all done because he was taking a job away from a Union worker by moving his equipment and personal desk items himself.
We were then told as a department that if we needed to move, even 1 desk over we're to box up all of our stuff and submitt a ticket to facilities to have them move us. I wouldn't have believed this would've happened except that I saw it myself.
Yeah America, vote for Hillary and see what you get...
Why box up the stuff? Why not tell the union guy to do it?
Unions tend to have moblike pratices.
A few years ago my sister bought some display furniture at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. It was at the end of the show and she wanted to take it home that day. Well that was a Sunday and the guys wouldn’t let her take it on the elevator. They said she had to come back on Monday so the union guys could load it up for her. It was a 4hour round trip.
Well she and her husband were so angry. The showroom guy distracted the elevator people and they were able to sneak it past the moblike punks.
That was the last time we bought furniture there at that market for our store. Screw those bastards.
I worked with a guy who used to work at a facility where the maintenance department was unionized. The light bulb went out in his office so he decided to change it, considering he couldn’t work in the dark. While he was up on the ladder changing the light bulb, one of the union employees saw him and yelled at him for “taking away someone’s job”. A grievance was filed, and the guy was suspended for a week without pay.
this type of union activity has been going on for years....I’ve been at trade shows where you can hardly plug in an electrical cord yourself...
'Cuz that would be outside of that union guy's job description - he would need to have a Box Packers Union member do that. Unfortunately, I'm only half-kidding...
Unicorns tend to have mobile pralines.
Years ago, as the low man on the seniority totem pole, I had to leave my regular , sweat dripping hot job inside the building, and stand outside for 30 minutes a day in sub zero weather, all because a good union man filed grievances against our foreman for unloading single items off of pallets stored outside. My foreman apologized to me for having to do such nonsense. The good union man just told me that "we can't even allow small items slip by; it will cost some other guy a job." No, it just cost me a case of pneumonia...
A Union is a hiding place for bad workers
At the Comdex show in Chicago many years ago, the exhibitors’ people were not allowed to plug in computers to their booths’ electrical supply at McCormick Place, because computers were considered “machinery” and had to be hooked up by the union personnel. This included multi million dollar prototypes that sparks didn’t have a clue how to install correctly. Needless to say, once the contract with the city ran out Comdex never went back to Chicago.
The only way we will ever turn this country around, and take it back from the Socialists, is to First and Foremost abolish public employee unions.
We had some lights being installed in the office by union guys.
One guy was doing most of the work and installing several lights a day. His boss came in about a week later and said union rules only allow an X # of lights installed daily per worker.
He had to spend another day removing and hiding the lights because they were scared of the union. And then working less per day to comply with the rules.
You don't "tell" a union guy to do anything if you are not part of the Union.
What will it take for the feds to over-ride state “right-to-work” laws? Will this just be a presidential edict?
When The QE2 ocean Liner was being built back in the late sixties the entire construction was brought to a standstill by a dispute between the carpenters union and the metalworkers union over who could drill the holes in wood veneer covered metal doors that were being fitted to the cabins.
After a multi week work stoppage, it was resolved that for every hole, the carpententers would drill the first 1/40th of an inch, the metalworkers would then be scheduled to come and drill through the metal, then the carpenters would come back and finish of the last 1/40th of an inch on the other side...
That’s Unions for you...
A guy I know had the job for a major US car co. to organize car and truck shows around the US. He said for the Chicago show, NYC and the one in Vegas he had to ask his co. for a big wad of 100’s and twenties to pass out to the union thugs and union workers at the venues or he wouldn’t get a single thing done for the show booth and car move in and out. Lack of cash bribes would mean the work wouldn’t start.
Meanwhile, the Constitution of The United States would be found crumpled in a WM dumpster behind the White House.
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