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My first run-in with a Union goon

A worker was on our office floor one day was trying to maneuver a 4x8 foot display board around a tight corner, and I could see he was having a very difficult time. So I got up out of my desk and said, “here let me help you and lifted a corner and swung the tail end around for him. All of a sudden, I hear “Hey! Hey! Hey! What the hell do you think you are doing?” – turning around I see a Shop Steward red-faced and firing more angry words at me, for daring to lay my non-union hands on a job they do. If he would have seen me spray painting his car, I don’t think he would have been any more angry. It was a real eye-opener. Here I am trying to help a fellow human being, and I get yelled out in front the whole office floor over it by some union goon.

My first day at my current employer I had a grievence filed against me for carrying a box of personnel items to my new desk. Fast forward 14 years and I just had another one filed against me for moving carepackage donations (for our combat service members) to the collection point.

The union can KMA!

While going through school back in the late ‘70s I worked for a Summer at a power plant, and it opened my eyes to what unions were all about. One Friday, a train load of construction material came in on a spur that was not used often and the train was stopped by a small lump of dirt across the tracks. The little mound was less dirt than you could fit into the trunk of a car, and there were any number of shovels nearby along with about fifty other men from various unions that were there to help in the unloading, including (1) operators and oilers for the cranes and compressors, (2) steam fitters to unload tubes that went from the bottom of the boiler to the top, (3) boiler makers to unload tubes that went from the top to the bottom, (4) iron workers for assorted structural steel, and (5) carpenters to unload any wood or non-metallic thing. With the engine stopped, everyone assembled around the dirt and debated what to do, although anyone could have cleared the track in ten minutes with one shovel. After an hour's discussion, it was decided to call the union hall about 50 miles away in D.C. for two members of the laborer's union, who did not arrive until 2 p.m., and who then made short work of the woeful dirt pile. However, since it was now 2:45, and the other union's work rules allowed them to knock off within 15 minutes of their quitting time to change clothes, no work was done by anyone else, and the cars stayed unloaded until Monday morning. It was an entire day wasted for 50 men, and a fine bit of work for the unions.

The “Union” is really a government-endorsed monopoly on labor.

They’re are really only a sub-contractor - with that government monopoly (and no morals or ethics in too many cases) - which the business is forced to hire to do some parts of certain jobs. The UNION then hires (and assigns and trains and selects and promotes) their (government-restricted-by-monopoly) members to do the parts of the job that the union wants to do.

Union members are NOT hired by the company. Since they are only “allowed to work” ONLY after getting permission (to work at that company) from THEIR UNION -—> The workers are working FOR their UNION.

They have no reason to have any loyalty, any respect, any concern for the welfare of “their” company - and, by extension - ANY COMPANY. The constant union propaganda, in fact, voids and trains and indoctrinates its members to hate and fight the companies where their union is employed.