I’ve heard of union workers getting “laid off” for weeks at a time, at 95% pay!
Is there a Wifi connection for my iPod Touch? Can I bring some books and magazines?
I heard they even watch TV and play video games too. This has to be stopped. I can hear it now, “what did you do at work today, Dad?” “Well, I became Bowling Champ on the Wii we have at work.” B-P
Actually, this has been out for a long time. Jim Quinn (of the Quinn & Rose show) has been talking about it for several years now.
True and outrageous.
Labor unions are barnacles on the ship of commerce.
Only a Union and sick management could come up with this.
NO BAILOUT!!!
I’m not going to pay for this crap.
Why have I never heard of this? I hope this goes mainstream. As union-dominated industry goes further down the tubes, stories like this will get more attention.
There was an article posted on FR about this topic a couple of years ago. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.
They should at least give them all pacifiers like maggie simpsons.
That’s nuts! They should at least provide them cots to lie down on.
The unions were aided in taking over the auto companies so now they same thuggery which is at the heart of the unions has destroyed the U.S. auto industry. Union members are too stupid to realize how their mobster ledership have destroyed the golden goose so the members will be herded into marching for more rights, more ‘benefits’, more demands to be met ... the extortion continues because unions are criminal enterprises. Small wonder they’re so closely aligned with the other massive criminal enterprise, the Democrat Party.
Why bother?
How demeaning to the human spirit. The auto industry is bankrupt on many levels.
Just watch as we the taxpayers will pay for this crap with yet-another-bailout. If they give you the option to go back to school and be paid that kind of money, why not do it? At least you can learn something and improve your marketability for the future. These bums have no self-motivation, and we’re going to be paying for it.
Just Damn!!!! But then they probably accomplish a whole lot more than those federal people rounding up illegals.
The Japanese auto makers have a similar building where you go in by yourself and find a knife laying on the floor.
This is one of the reasons the GM bailout is another nail in our coffin.
As Rush has said, GM is really nothing more than a health care provider that makes cars on the side. We all heard the numbers yesterday: it cost GM over $70/man-hour to produce a car, while it costs Toyota less the $50/man-hour, and most others companies much less. Guess why.
A bailout of GM is nothing more than a bailout of the UAW.
When we lived in DC, we constantly heard rumors re similiar situations with fed so called employees being hid and paid in similiar situations.
When my dad began work he operated a vertical lathe and machined the cylinder sleeves for the new generation Wright engine, which replace the one that had taken Lindbergh to Paris. the strict rules regarding workload were maintained by the Union, (UAW) and by the early 50s the engine that powered the B-17 and then B-29 were their main products. Dad's productivity and his fellow workers had improved over those years to the point where their quota for the week was completed by end of shift on Wednesday.
What did they do? They brought their water pistols to work and staged these magnificent battles, (this is where I learned of and became very proficient in water pistol battles). Curtis Wright went from a full feature Aerospace Industry that built aircraft and engines and all the other stuff to today where they are an aerospace "parts" company!
Another triumph fro the UAW. Maybe they should provide water pistols for the occupants of the rubber room!
The sad part of this is the extent to which it entices the next generation to try to join the gravy train. Why behave in school, try to get academic scholarships, or even graduate when you can make more money than many, if not most, college graduates? Why pay for your kid’s higher education when you could get him hired on by your union? The problem is, this is an unsustainable balloon that is deflating right now, if not popping. Any job which does not require education will always be vulnerable to competition from other uneducated people or nations. (And, frankly, I believe the best thing we can do for some third world countries is to ship such jobs over to them, let them get an economy in place where its citizens will demand education and opportunities. I am not talking about wholesale exporting of jobs, don’t misunderstand me. There will always be people here who can’t get higher education and there are many jobs that undergird our own economy and defense, but I think it would be better to do this than send billions of dollars to governments in those countries.) That competition requires the unions to distort the free market to protect itself and thus distorts the entire capitalist system, just to sustain the union members and their union fees. Those fees are then used to ensure the government continues to prop up the unions. It is past time to wean the industry from its unrealistic expectations but the sooner it is done, the less pain for everyone.