Michigan legislative action thread
No I in Team nor Man in Union.
Are They are playing with fire? Could this be a class action Hostile Work Environment suit against the Union? They are playing with productivity and safety by not discussing good will type intrinsic work environment practices that make productivity and safety better. If you damage moral that much, does that plant become unproductive? A winning Corporate Culture is everything, this move is a playing a hand against that win.
Talk about vindictive and spiteful. I hope it backfires.
If my name ever showed up on such a mass-distributed union hit list, I’d have a pit bull lawyer down their throats so fast that they would not know what had hit them.
My son is a plumber in the Peoria, IL plumber’s or maybe it’s pipefitter’s union. A tremendous chunk of his pay comes out of his checks, plus also for medical benefits. He sees other union guys at the hall who are lazy, and when you would work jobs with them, they’d get on you if you worked too fast.
My son, and the other young guys, loved their work, and would work fast and hard, then go to the next job. For that reason they were picked up quickly by the best contractors full time, but of course they were still union.
He wants to start his own business, but knows there is no way, NO WAY he can without being part of the union.
I suspect Michigan is ten times worse. There is no way those things in life, strong private unions, are broken until someone or something breaks them and for good reason.
Peoria at one time had probably 40,000 UAW union members and thousands more in Joliet, Aurora and other places. I worked there as a doctor. EVery four years or so they’d strike us. These guys were unskilled laborers making more than anyone else in Peoria with full medical and dental coverage, back then NO DEDUCTABLE. And they’d strike for more.
One year, management decided that they were going to run the plants themselves, as most if not all of the supervisors came up the ranks as UAW members. It was a real fiasco at first as the UAW tried to stop them. Finally a court allowed them to come to work and work the lines.
The strike lasted forever, I think almost a year, can’t recall. But it was the first time they stood up to the union.
The next time there was a strike, they did it again, and then in the years there after Caterpillar started moving their UAW jobs to other states that were right to work.
Today there are very few UAW workers for Caterpillar in Illinois, maybe a few thousand if that. In short, they screwed themselves.
I have no problem with private unions, not what so ever, but I do with public ones. They are nothing more than the strong arm of the democratic party, and the republicans allowed it to happen.
We can live with private unions, but the public unions work for us, and they should not have that right.
Sounds like the basis for a RICO suit.
REAL mature and grown up
Persuade?
Yeah, I think we all know how the Union likes to "persuade" co-workers.
Got a kick out of your keywords.... haha
Didn’t the UAW sell its members out on 0vomitcare?
WAR ON WOMEN! Will Hillary be outraged!
If several of the 43 simply claim sexual harassment against a few of the union stewards, they will win. In todays world, one is guilty by being charged. That should be their weapon. The union wont know how to handle it.
Sounds like the union bosses are worried about their own perks and benefits.
Would that God would let me be in control. Build the gallows.
Fire anyone who causes a work stoppage or slowdown.
“If at any time you wish to rejoin UAW Local 412, you will be required to pay all unpaid dues and/or dues in arrears as well as an initiation fee.”
An ever growing penalty. This will pretty well guarantee these workers will never rejoin the union.
I wore my “Company Puke” label as a badge of honor, when I was a Tech in the UAW, which included Aerospace workers.
I was the youngest in the group, by 15-20 years, so it wasn’t easy.
But standing up to those crusty guys sure helped make me stronger.
Moved into Engineering and finished my graduate work.
Next week I close on a 40 year career and retire from that company.
I wonder if Donald J Trump will, as President, push a national right to work law thru.