Posted on 03/17/2023 5:31:36 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
I had an uncle who worked for GM in the late 60’s. He was a brand new employee and they gave him some mundane job to do assembling something the line would install. They showed him how to assemble the part, where to put them when completed and walked out of this room and left him.
About 6hrs into the shift the foreman comes in and checks on him and goes bezerk! What have you done he yelled! What my boss told me to do he replied, I assembled these for the line. The foreman goes storming off cursing and brings in my uncles boss cussing every breath and says look! My uncles boss says you have assembled enough of these for the entire week, you are only supposed to make 5-6 of these an entire shift and you have 30-35 of them! The foreman said hide these from management and work an extra in every night and looked at my uncle and said 5 a night understand and stormed out. Union thugs...
My brother inspects for his company for potential EPA violations they may incur during their routine inspections. He found Some debris and fifty gallon drums in an area that had dangerous contamination. He had it roped off and submitted a clean up asap order through the chain of command, high priority as the state inspection agency and EPA were coming in five or six weeks for an inspection and it was easily over a $100K fine for the company. Those that were supposed to clean it up were union employees.
Two weeks go by and nothing is done, my brother submitted a follow up inquiry as to why this wasn’t being cleaned up through the chain of command. Another three weeks go by with an inspection eminent and he finally goes to his supervisor and says if they walk in here you are looking at a huge fine, plus they will see management was told this was an issue and probably penalties. The management dithered about saying I can’t get them to clean it up, I’ve told them.
My brother said fine, I’ll get it done and pulled his team in and they suited up, prepped their equipment and moved in and started the clean up. After a couple of hours the head union thug showed up and demanded they cease their activities this was a union job. My brother looked at his team and said continue and finish this up and looked at the union thug and said I submitted a clean up order nearly six weeks ago and follow up requests and you lazy bastards haven’t even replied. We have an inspection in two days and I’m not going to lose $200K in fines because of you sorry cracks. Get off my work site! The foreman was furious, I’ll file a complaint on you! My brother said that will take some effort and work out of you so I’m not worried about you filing a complaint, get out of here.
The EPA and state showed up the next morning, inspected and they got a clean bill of health. The union thug filed his complaint and it fell on deaf ears. Before my brother moved on to another position he had several complaints filed by the union thugs. They hated him and he returned their feelings.
I have a good union story. I was an electronic tech many moons ago. I was building a device that required specialized 3 phase electrical inputs and outputs. The design engineer told my boss to order 3 phase connectors from a local distributor. My boss decided to go against the design engineer wishes and buy the connectors from the local university stores. The local electrician union rep was in my shop before my boss got back to the shop with the connectors.
My folks moved to Downingtown, PA about 35 miles west of Philadelphia when I graduated from high school in 1969 and I spent my college summers with them. During my last summer with them (1972) a huge labor dispute erupted between unions and the James Leon Altemose construction company.
Wiki --> Altemose owned and headed the non-union development and construction company and believed that employees should have the right to choose if they wanted to belong to a trade union. Altemose wanted to employ at least a portion of trade employees as non-union. The unions thought otherwise.That was the first time I ever encountered unions (that I recall) and, although I was not personally involved, I remember the violence and arson that summer very clearly (it was front page news in the papers). It was only a couple years later I encountered the union problems in Washington and Arizona.A thousand construction workers arrived at his Valley Forge, PA construction site at dawn on June 5, 1972 in cars and buses chartered by Roofers Local Union No. 30. More than $300,000 of property damaged occurred, including firebombing of equipment and construction trailers. Fire trucks were not allowed to respond because of the chaos at the site. The destruction would continue until midday when the state police arrived in riot gear. On August 17, 1972, Altemose was assaulted by two dozen men in downtown Philadelphia. The protests were estimated to have cost Altemose more than $2 million. They would delay, but not halt, the completion of construction as the hotel would eventually open in September 1973.
Altemose received the Award of Excellence in 1973 from Engineering News-Record for his work for the right of contractors to work open shop. The cover of the February 15, 1973 ENR magazine announcing the award showed Altemose and his armed bodyguard.
People who paid ANY attention:
Biden campaigned on “EVERY JOB SHOULD BE A UNION JOB”.
<>Michigan voted themselves back to failure<>
Don’t be so sure. In 2020, Detroit oozed fraud.
They can be nothing more than mafia like thugs with their behavior. I had a friend who was ex-military and worked for the Company in the 80’s. He left that type of work and decided to open a coal company in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, non union company. He came in one morning and the whole site was at a stand still. He had visitors from the local UMWA on site and they came in bullying the other employees and told them until they went union they were not working.
My friend looked at his people and said get back to work I’ll take care of this, now and they did. The union thugs started in with their threats on him personally. Having combat experience and 3rd world experiences he said you get off my worksite now. They made personal threats of things that would happen to him and he said get off this worksite and don’t ever set foot here again or they will carry you off and as far as your threats I have been shot at before and I shoot back. If I have to drive here and home shooting you SOB’s each way that is fine by me, please. They left and left him and his company alone. Pure thugs.
Good for him. Lucky they didn’t come back to get serious. The Philly incident I wrote about was very serious with major arson, destruction of equipment (close to $1 million today) and assault.
Except for the steaming wreck Willard the Rat left of Massachusetts.
Must be where all the Demonrats in Hardin County are. It’s otherwise an 85% Republican voting county.
As an aside, Demonrats have no business owning guns. They want no one to have Second Amendment rights and they commit most of the crimes.
It would have been bad for both sides had they came back. This guy would have killed them without hesitation and they probably fired back.
I have a friend who’s grandfather was the target of a union hit at one point decades ago. The had set up the hit and he happened to go home a different way that day is the only thing that saved him. Some of his friends were not so lucky.
Your rank and file sh tlib is just going along for the ride, thinking they've won something(culture war, etc)...meanwhile the hierarchy/ruling class are moving the chess pieces, the useful idiots (sh tlibs) will be disposed of (like us) when they are no longer needed.
Who would have thought, a country that took so much bloodshed and sacrifice to create, could be taken without firing a shot. Control the institutions, infiltrate the legal system, manipulate the masses...checkmate.
Conservatives escaping democrat hellholes are always welcome in Florida... Liberals need to stay in Michigan.
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