[eddie willers]

Same right here in the US, just there is a more clever system of laundering the bribe before delivery to the taker.

I was a naive Southern boy when I got my first "real" job and was flown to Chicago to help man a booth at McCormick Place (back when the Consumer Electronic Show had a summer show there)

Well I may have been naive but the owners were old hands.

I was amazed that we were the first booth that got to tear down and get the trucks loaded to get out of town while others waited hours (and a few, days) until I found out we had bribed the correct Union workers.

Just another reason to hate Unions.

[Rembrandt]

“I was a naive Southern boy when I got my first “real” job and was flown to Chicago to help man a booth at McCormick Place (back when the Consumer Electronic Show had a summer show there)

Well I may have been naive but the owners were old hands.

I was amazed that we were the first booth that got to tear down and get the trucks loaded to get out of town while others waited hours (and a few, days) until I found out we had bribed the correct Union workers.

Just another reason to hate Unions.”

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I don’t know what year you were there but I was one of the original 12 people in that union - The International Stage Hands Union, a Teamsters union group.

That was in 1966, I think.

Yes, you would have had to pay money to get your preference. If you had just waited...two hours, two days, whatever it would have been cost-free. But anyone who wants to save time, a trucker, an exhibitor, anyone, had to come across with money or merchandise or both.

I’m sure it’s still that way, especially with the Head Union Steward now occupying the White House.

[Rocinante]

Yup, my boss did the same thing at the CES at Mosconi Center in SFO. He found the union boss, gave him a $100 bill torn in half. He got the first half for putting our booth up first and the second half for breaking down our booth first.

[FreedomPoster]

Chicago never got any of the big Comdex computer shows back in the heyday because of the unions. Atlanta and Las Vegas got them. You can’t have union electricians be the only ones to wire up your computers for display.

[FreedomPoster]

Chicago never got any of the big Comdex computer shows back in the heyday because of the unions. Atlanta and Las Vegas got them. You can’t have union electricians be the only ones to wire up your computers for display.