Nice try. We were assigned a union minder when we entered the facility. It was planned.
Of course it was planned; you just didn't show up and knock on the door! And the "union members" were shop workers, so, your point means nothing.
He had a pad of paper. He created a work slip and 20 minutes to an hour later a couple of union laborers showed up to lift the edge of the printer so I could get the serial number and model number. I not only could have done it myself but the whole job could have been done in two days. With the union "help" it took more than a week. Only a union thug thinks this is a good idea.
The guy with the pad of paper was probably a foreman and you say that two other guys showed to lift the printers . . . and then you say that you could have lifted them yourself: your story doesn't make sense. The idea of doing it in just two days as opposed to a week sounds like more hyperbole.
I'm glad you agre that's it's true; because it is. It is not irrelevant however, as you asserted that labor unions are steeped in socialism when indeed they are not: you just admitted that.
I see. How many unions give political contributions to democrats? And how many to Republicans? More importantly how many public sector unions give to each?
How many corps give to the Republican party? How many corps give to both parties to cover their bets? You should know that the Teamsters backed Ronald Reagan in 1980; not becasue we liked him, quite the contrary, but becasue of Jimmy Carter's signing of the National Motor Carrier Act of 1980 which broke the back of the American trucking industry: it was the only time I ever saw both union and companies fighting together to save themselves.
And that is why private sector unions are dying off. They are not needed. But public sector unions are growing. Hmm. Do they need protection from the taxpayer?
Again, more nonsense I'm afraid. American labor was intentionally targetd by the Reagan adminstration, the Thatcher adminstration in England, and for thirty years the corps have legislated and out spent labor for the purpose of making it ineffective. Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to all the illegal aliens for the expressed purpose of driving down wages: Allen Greenspan used to go on about "wage inflation", which is just BS. It has been a conserted effort, and according to labor dept statistics teh national average for an hourly wage is $19 an hour. In 1983, the Teamsters paid $13.07 (I still have a pay stub). So wages have been intentionally supressed and reveresed under Republican leadership, and they're trying to destroy the pension system so they have control of that money as well; which is directly related to the subject of this thread.
Uh-huh. Labor unions are a European socialist idea.
You are entitled to believe so. And yes, the chuckle remains the best part of your posts.
Uh,
wrong agin: when labor, as we know it, started in the US in 1790, socialism
as even a concept, let alone a government practice, did not exist. Labor as it's been raised in Europe goes back to the trade guilds, so your assesment is without merit whatsoever.
I submit, that you have a very badd attitude of labor based on envy, and that attitude will not change.
I submit that you are making up your "Pittsbugh Steel" story as you go along: none of it makes sense and is very weak just on it's face.
I submit that you have no knowledge of labor; or for that matter, American history as it relates to labor, so you just hide behind the "socialism" assertion becasue you lack the ability to argue your case effectively.