[Rodney King]

Want to get paid for doing nothing? Join a union.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My husband's company had a government contract a few years back. Because he had to hire Union workers and pay their scale, these "helpers" were making more than my husband on the job! lol

This story though, is worse than sad, it is pathetic.......

[RabidBartender]

Wow. This sickens me.

[E Rocc]

Boortz may actually have picked up on this story here. We had a pretty extensive thread on it awhile ago.

-Eric

[Valin]

I have two words for these union custodians. Care to guess what they are?

[Psalm 73]

The only thing worse than a Union is a Management that makes one necessary.
I belonged to a Union (UAW) for 14 years, and spent 14 years' as non-union.
Conclusion? Power currupts, no matter WHO has it.
People are basically (to a greater or lesser degree) selfish, lazy, and evil (yes, even me).

[SauronOfMordor]

I was working at Pan Am Airlines in the eighties. Their computer operations was unionized by the Teamsters. Programmers were not allowed to use terminals to type in their programs -- they had to write the code down on paper and give it to the unionized keypunch operator to put on punchcards (any old geezers remember punchcards?), with 24-hour turnaround. I quit in disgust after 3 weeks. Pan Am went bust not too long after (I wonder why?)

In the 90's, I was working in a building in NYC. One guy got tired of waiting for the building guy to replace a burned-out light above his cube, so he got a florescent light out of the storeroom and fixed it himself. The building guy comes up to him and says "Hey! What are you doing? You're taking food out of my kids' mouths!" My friend replied: "Good. Your kids are too fat anyway". My friend got in trouble over that remark...

[Old Fud]

Among my happiest moments in adult life was the day, this year, I sent my polite but scathing resignation to the musician's local. The president, a trumpet owning attorney, returned a reply that would make one wonder what century we're living in. Lot's of stuff like "If it weren't for union "influence", we wouldn't have publicly funded sports arenas -- the kinds of things we all benefit from".

Thieves.

[cascademountaineer]

A SICKING(sic) TALE OF THE UNION MENTALITY AT WORK

Mr. Boortz has apparently never heard of using spellcheck.

[Cuttnhorse]

Key words: Plumbers Crack
LOL!!!

[IYAS9YAS]

Does it not bother anyone that the time and a half for these lunkheads is $37/hour? That works out to $24.67/hour regular time. Never should have gone to college and gotten a degree if I'd known I could join a uselession and make $5.00 an hour more than I make now on regular pay. Accounting doesn't seem to pay anymore. Unless you worked for Enron or AA.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They want to be paid? Then pay them. In lead birdshot. 20 gauge. In the ass. Then tell them their next payday will be 12 gauge buckshot.

[ko_kyi]

Since this seems to be the thread to post silly union stories I will contribute one of my own.

I was flying across the country on vacation and after a stopover in St. Louis I boarded the plane and they began preparing to pull away from the gate. All was fine and dandy except one of the overhead compartments wouldn't close. Two flight attendants tried, then the copilot. The pilot announced that regs required it to be closed or secured before we could leave.

Finally, after a half an hour of sitting and waiting, TWO union guys came on, took 2 strips of duct tape, taped the compartment closed, left the plane, and we were pulled back and taking off in less than 5 minutes.

[doug from upland]

About 5 years ago I put together a plan in which licensed contractors and volunteers could repair all of the nation's schools. I sent info to several congressman on the appropriate committee. The reception was lukewarm, I suspect, because the unions would have never stood for it. They would rather have the schools in shambles in some areas.

[1Old Pro]

I like unions about as much as the author. It fosters non-productive, lazy, high cost, useless workers.

[Sloth]

Yeah, unions are great.

[Jack of Diamonds]

This is just part of the story. The union custodians did not complain about the tree at the school the dead boy attended. It was the additional landscaping at the High School and the School Board that they didn't agree with.

[MHT]

Years ago a man called Rush saying that his child's public school was in need of general repair (painting, etc) but could not afford the work so a group of parents volunteered their time and materials to clean the place up. In the end, after a lengthy fight (during which time, of course, things got worse), the volunteer group was not allowed to do the job because it violated the union contract of the janitors, who had never been able to get it together to get that very work done.

Last night O'Reilly talked about the stupidity of having an agent represent you to get only a 2% raise--that's what the union leaders are able to do for their members. The union guys can be stupid sheeple if they want to. The sad part is that everybody else suffers because of the "fair play" these bullies insist upon.

And we made airport security personnel government union members???????

[wny]

I recall a similar instance on Long Island, maybe 6 or 8 years ago. A local Boy Scout troop intended to clean up a local creek which had old tires, shopping carts, etc. The Village sanitation department (union) threw a hissy fit. Claimed the Scouts were taking their jobs! Kids were being exploited a slave labor to take work away from paid employees! Never mind that the creek had been that way for years as the "paid employees" never went near it.
Then there's the Sante Fe RR (pre-BNSF) breakman that hurt himself on the job. He and the union fought for years to be classified as disabled and get disability pay. After he gets it, 8 days later he sues the railroad for not giving him his old job back. claims they discriminated against him because of his disablity.

[LonePalm]

Why would anyone be surprised at this?

Unions exist to protect people with non-transferable job skills.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Jamais reculez á tyrannie un pouce!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! Never give an inch to tyranny!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Khurkris]

Bunch of bent-noses muscleing(sp?) in on the playground action.