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Confessions of a Union Buster
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We on the furloughed side went through the "Union Busting 101" stuff many months ago...... It may be much later but I'm glad it's being brought up again...
That and extended days:angryfire We were dead set against them last year. Really wish it would have been a different msg last year.......
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Been there done that, unions are limited in what they can deliver. One thing they can not deliver is job security. I was ALPA at TransAmerican (L-188/DC-8), 1978-79, owner decided he could make more money selling airplanes than flying them, going backward in seniority just when I get a Capt's bid, airline ended up in 1982 with C-130's in Angola Africa and New Guinea. Folded in 1984, I bailed to the corp. world in 1979. Handwriting was on the wall and there was nothing a union could do to protect my job. Zantop Teamsters (L-188) in 1996, union got in by one vote, first pay raise on contract due 3-26-1997, owner shut the company down on 3-25-1997. Jimmy Zantop figured why risk my $35M, Nothing a union could do to protect my job.
From WSJ, 3-24-11
But the union movement has been bleeding members for decades, and its appeal is dimming. In a March 11 poll, Gallup asked "what word or phrase comes to mind when you think of labor unions?" Thirty-four percent said "positive," 38% said "negative." Overall, Gallup said, this was a "less positive picture" than it found last summer—when approval of unions dipped to the second-lowest level since 1930. Unions have become just another unpopular special-interest group.
UNION: But indirectly, Enlightened management knows you have to match industry standards to be competitive in retaining and attracting employees. Therefore employees at those non-union companies benefit from the union company work rules without having to pay dues. BTW “So What” Unions are in the business of selling dues and restricting productivity. If the Teamsters were as enlightened as many of the higher quality managers, they would understand you just lost your job and needed every nickel to feed yourself and not take that $100 out of your last paycheck, which included credit for earned vacation days.
But what about when unions price themselves out of the market, and non-union companies such Toyota, JetBlue, etc step in and offer the consumers a similar product at a lower price. Why do union members support non-union places of work, i.e. all the UAW Buy American stickers on the bumpers of the cars parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot? If Bob King, had followed the old tactics of the UAW, he will most likely would have destroyed the remainder of the US auto industry. But he followed the tactic of the Germans unions, where raises in pay or benefits are more than offset by increases in productivity, he may truly become an American hero. No more jobs bank where you are paid for not working, no more 76-job classifications. In the end the consumer of a product determines the wages paid to the employees. BTW I do not shop at Wal-Mart I shop a union store down the street called Meijer's, why because they are a local business.
BTW I have been on both sides, the union organizers use the same tactics as the guy in the video.
From WSJ, 3-24-11
But the union movement has been bleeding members for decades, and its appeal is dimming. In a March 11 poll, Gallup asked "what word or phrase comes to mind when you think of labor unions?" Thirty-four percent said "positive," 38% said "negative." Overall, Gallup said, this was a "less positive picture" than it found last summer—when approval of unions dipped to the second-lowest level since 1930. Unions have become just another unpopular special-interest group.
UNION: But indirectly, Enlightened management knows you have to match industry standards to be competitive in retaining and attracting employees. Therefore employees at those non-union companies benefit from the union company work rules without having to pay dues. BTW “So What” Unions are in the business of selling dues and restricting productivity. If the Teamsters were as enlightened as many of the higher quality managers, they would understand you just lost your job and needed every nickel to feed yourself and not take that $100 out of your last paycheck, which included credit for earned vacation days.
But what about when unions price themselves out of the market, and non-union companies such Toyota, JetBlue, etc step in and offer the consumers a similar product at a lower price. Why do union members support non-union places of work, i.e. all the UAW Buy American stickers on the bumpers of the cars parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot? If Bob King, had followed the old tactics of the UAW, he will most likely would have destroyed the remainder of the US auto industry. But he followed the tactic of the Germans unions, where raises in pay or benefits are more than offset by increases in productivity, he may truly become an American hero. No more jobs bank where you are paid for not working, no more 76-job classifications. In the end the consumer of a product determines the wages paid to the employees. BTW I do not shop at Wal-Mart I shop a union store down the street called Meijer's, why because they are a local business.
BTW I have been on both sides, the union organizers use the same tactics as the guy in the video.
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HiSpeedFlyer
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Thank you, not normally what I would expect from FI, where the only acceptable posts are "All management is evil and suck" or "Unions are perfect in every way" In those cases the message is never attacked, only the person with the message.
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Ok. I'll say it.
Management is greedy and only looks out for themselves. Hence the term "Golden parachute".
ONLY the union is going to be looking out for YOUR best interest.
Paraphrased, but still true. Have a good Christmas.
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But they can not give you job security, and they breed off of this fear of management which you manifest. Anyone can have a union if they want, I could care less, but the union promises are hollow is the face of economic reality and owners desires. And anyone who sees thme as the second coming has probably not been in a union.
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