Fire the hole lot of them...Air controller style

[Eagler]

monkeys?

after seeing them on tv, that is racist isn't it SOB?

and I agree, fire them all .. +50k plus OT - retarded

[SOB]

I haven't seen them on TV.  Monkeys = Monkey Job = Job that a monkey could be trained to do.  Up until Feb, I had a monkey job...worked in customer care at T-Mobile.

[Reschke]

Show me someone who is financially comfortable after spending all their working life employed  in a union job and you will only see the "union boss". My uncle who died two years ago had to go back to work after 5 years just to make ends meet for him and his wife; because the union cut back on his pension and they published in our local paper that the union heads got a pay increase in that same month that those men and women got the pension decrease.

Sure he had great lifetime insurance but had to drive almost 2 hours one way just to go see the doctor to get a referral to go see the specialist 10 minute away from his house. Around here union jobs are loosing in popularity significantly because of the activities with the steel workers union and the auto workers union. Plus one of the biggest employers around here doesn't have a union and that is Mercedes Benz over in Tuscaloosa. However the Honda and Hyundai plants currently have unions and there has been talk recently of the employees pushing to get all the unions out of their plants.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
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Hire new monkeys.  

Import them from India. You can get college educated Indians to come to the U.S for cheap I'm sure.

[BigGun]

I guess the unions backed down & going back to work when the leaders were facing jail time. Now hopefully they follow the law & dock each member 2days pay for each day on strike.

[Chairboy]

It's amazing how quickly the union leadership changes stride when it's their own butts on the line instead of those of their members.  On an unrelated note and with no intent to link the two, I notice that the same thing happened in the Soviet Union.  It's one thing when the 'little people' are being screwed, it's another when the leadership is in trouble.

[RedTop]

Outsource it...its the new american way.

MaHatmaCoat would do it. Musthafajob would do it.

Suburbs , interstate and an SUV...only way to get there baby:D

[SOB]

Originally posted by Reschke
Show me someone who is financially comfortable after spending all their working life employed  in a union job and you will only see the "union boss".

Why hello there.  I am a state employee.  My job is a union job.  Should I be fortunate enough to work for the state until I retire, I will be quite financially comfortable.  I could introduce you to any one of a number of folks who have been employed with the state for longer than I have that are financially comfortable, but I don't know any of them that frequent this particular BBS.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by SOB
Why hello there.  I am a state employee.  My job is a union job.  Should I be fortunate enough to work for the state until I retire, I will be quite financially comfortable.  I could introduce you to any one of a number of folks who have been employed with the state for longer than I have that are financially comfortable, but I don't know any of them that frequent this particular BBS.

EEE GADS   SOB IS A UNION BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RUN FOR THE HILLS

[bozon]

The capitalists job is to screw the workers and pay them as little as possible. It is always the employer that exploits the worker - not the other way around. Unions are their defence. Nothing wrong with that... in principle.

The trouble is that union leaders need a brain so they wouldn't kill the cow they are trying to milk. It's like a girl you try to pick up. She has to resist a little or she'd be labeled a slut, but not too much or you'll find another.

Make women union leaders.

Bozon

[Chairboy]

The workers job is to squeeze every last penny out of the business owner and do as little work as possible.

Maybe the dirty capitalists need the protection here.  

It's hardly as one sided as you say.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Chairboy

Maybe the dirty capitalists need the protection here.  

 

Like the Tyco CEO . Just happened to omit a $25 million payment on his tax return. But he did share. He put a $6000 curtain in his maids bathroom. Wonder what he got for that.

I guess he needs protection. He got 8 to 25 in the state pen.

I think they need to investigate more CEOs and upper management. With Enron they got two. I doubt they are the only crooked ones.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Lye-El
Like the Tyco CEO . Just happened to omit a $25 million payment on his tax return. But he did share. He put a $6000 curtain in his maids bathroom. Wonder what he got for that.

I guess he needs protection. He got 8 to 25 in the state pen.

I think they need to investigate more CEOs and upper management. With Enron they got two. I doubt they are the only crooked ones.

one extreme example justified by another extreme example isn't the norm but the exception.  I agree with the thought that Union bosses really don't care.  My workers union here don't do much but harras managment when a member has a problem.  They don't do anything to fix problems except lodge complaints.  But they are not allowed to strike.


True story:  a new regulation came down that all food related items must be thrown away in a sealed containter....not an open trash can with a liner.  To kill two birds with one stone we decided to get rid of the 12 small trash cans in our break room and replace them with 3 large ones that have lids.  The bonus to this is that the airman that actually take out the trash at the end of shift (notice I said airman...no workers.  Our civilians by contract are not allowed to do janetorial work....that's left to the military members) but this idea was meat by worker greviences of "change in working conditions".  Even though the trash cans weren't specificly mentioned in the break room agreement we still couldn't replace them or "condense" them without union approval because of "past practices".  IMHO it was pretty gehy.  I'm often the last military member in my work area because I send the troops home early.  I end up taking out the trash and it is stupid having 12 small trash cans instead of 3 large ones to empty.

[Chairboy]

Lye-el: I'm a small business owner, and I have no 25 million dollar gutten pension funds.

It's amazing how your perspective can change if you're not in the "oppressed worker" roll and instead have to take responsibility for your own future.

Just sayin.  

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Chairboy
The workers job is to squeeze every last penny out of the business owner and do as little work as possible.

Hey, I thought that was the union's job?