Posted on 06/06/2002 5:39:12 AM PDT by Rodney King
A SICKING TALE OF THE UNION MENTALITY AT WORK
Matthew Barrick was eight years old when he died this past February. It was a brain aneurysm. Apparently Matthew was quite popular at the Roadoan Elementary School in Brooklyn. The funeral services were private, so an idea was hatched to plant a tree at the school in honor of Matthew.
The idea grew. Two local landscapers offered their help. Some local businesses like Home Depot got into the act. Soon about $3,000 in materials were obtained and the students gathered to plan the tree and do a little landscaping. They sang songs and wrote letters to Matthew.
Uh oh. It seems that some of the custodians at the school are upset. UNION custodians. You see, their duties include landscaping. They are not pleased that these students came over to the school to plant that tree in honor of a dead student. They want to be paid.
Yes --- you heard me right. The custodians want to be paid for the landscaping work. Never mind that they didn’t lift a finger. Never mind that the work didn’t cost them one single work hour at work. Goonion members Mark Hennings and Doug Scott want to be paid for the work. What’s more, they want to be paid at the time-and-a-half rate of $37 an hour because, after all, the volunteers did the work on a weekend!
The matter came up at a school board meeting in May. The union dopes insisted that the volunteer work violated their union contract. Other union members stood and applauded.
Now you see why I love unions so much?
But watch out for the thread nannies anyway.
i believe any honest and working man or woman in america should choose a profession that pays enough to support their spending habits. better yet, don't have kids if you can't afford them. get a used car if you can't afford a new one. camp for vacation, don't go to Florida. live within your means, or choose a different profession.
i believe any honest and working man or woman in america should choose a profession that pays enough to support their spending habits. better yet, don't have kids if you can't afford them. get a used car if you can't afford a new one. camp for vacation, don't go to Florida. live within your means, or choose a different profession. don't tax ME, the small business owner, yet more, for bad decisions you might make.
How kind of you! (droll, droll...) The author should have titled this one, " A Tree Doesn't Grow in Brooklyn." But I am not sure that the desire to paid for work you didn't do and the notion that things can't work without you applies only to unions....Kinda sounds like management to me....parsy the still lovelorn.
And I don't want to hear any garbage about the "good" unions either, because their aren't any.
They bilk their members for dues (many times you have no choice) they reward tenure as opposed to performance, they encourage lazyness and punish initiave.
Their fat cat officials are seldom heard from and even more seldom seen, they breed corruption and contempt for true capitalism.
Little Neil Cavouto (?) on FOX said yesterday that the average union employee get's a 2% increase in wages annualy.
They are a socialist construct backed with Federal force.
The only union situation I could endorce would be a bunch of guy's threatning to out right quit if their demands weren't met. But your typical unionite doesn't want to quit, he just wants to extort more money than his position is worth from his employer and the consumer.
It's funny, when me and my unionite buddy go shopping he is actively looking for the "Union Made" label.. While I go out of my way to avoid it. You should hear some of the fight's that follow.
(He will probably key my car over it.. but, eh.. )
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