Unions had thier place once upon a time, long, long ago.
now they seem to do much more damage than good.
When i first started driving, there was a very large ltl company called consoldated freight, cf for short. they were a union shop. when the contract came up, the union was asking for a raise that was frankly, insane. and they would not budge, period. long story short, cf folded, they simply could not operate under the dictates of the union. 20,000 some odd people were tossed out on the streets, without warning. I found it funny that while some of these people were walking out the door, there were recruiters on the sidewalk handing out apps for non-union jobs, that still exsisted.
Look at the ford buy-out thread, the unions caused this.
if a union knew how to create a business, they wouldnt be leaching off other peoples's hard work. they would be creating companies and become producers themselves.(yeah, i know bho pretty much gave gm to the uaw. shame they are gonna kill the company eventually. )
in my opinion, a union is really nothing more than a form of communism. in full disclosure, i have been a union member in the past. and that union(ufcw) did save my job once, and there were some back-room deals done to make it happen. i cant talk about the details, but looking back on it with a little more wisdom, i should have walked on the spot. (local president's kid and i hung out in hs, we were all "car guys"). it was a situation where i should have lost my gig, no questions asked. i was in the hr office with the hr manager, steward, and line supervisor, and termination papers on the desk. Union president walked in, asked hr manager if he remembered "that deal we had". Pres and hr manager left room, came back, papers went in trash, and i was sent back to work. It was pure politics.
