Posted on 06/03/2007 8:56:55 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
hate to tell you...come to NY, either LGA or JFK, and observe some of the brain dead TSA people at work in those airports...
And you’ve never seen nonunion workers sleeping on the job?
They're not talking about non union workers here.
Trying to avoid a union shop is only one of the reasons that plants are being built in Southern States, if at all.
Cheap labor, relatively cheap land, big tax breaks, absence of worker protection mechanisms, easier access to transportation, and lower energy costs are some of the others.
When places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh where in their heyday they were union manned, and the envy of the world. When the owners decided to spend their capital building more modern factories in foreign countries, and began letting their American plants become obsolete and ill-maintained, then no workers could possibly keep things going, no matter how hard they tried.
The remark I responded to:
“Do they have a British equivalent to our labor unions? If so, you couldn’t fire that guy. Union workers see sleeping on the job as one of their rights.”
The US has a Birmingham in Alabama, not Mississippi.
When the owners decided to spend their capital building more modern factories in foreign countries,
The companies didn't leave the states to modernize their foreign factories. They left because the union workers demanded to be paid $30/hr to turn a wrench. That, my friend, is why the fore mentioned cities are now called, "The Rust Capitol".
I've been to those cities who still use union labor exclusively. It took me 18 hours to get a truck unloaded because of all the breaks and union BS. Not because of the owners. The company I hauled for had to pay an extra $430 just for my detention time due to the laziness of the "Made in the USA" union workers. Finally, their wonderful work and pension plans add approximately $3800 to the cost of a new car. And you want to blame the Owners of the companies? Don't you think that cost is past on to us?
Like I said, spin it as you please while the workers change shifts in Mississippi at the new Toyota and Nissan plants while making a decent and reasonable wage.
Wouldn't need one. It's extremely difficult to get rid of employees in the UK. Conservatively, you'd need 6 months and records after records of "issues" with the follow up counciling.
Actually, there is a Birmingham, MS. It's in Lee county on County Road 251 just north of Tupelo, MS. Just FYI
Wiley
Did you forget to say: “Please”?
Immediately after 9/11, a good friend - who was over sixty at the time - applied for a job with TSA. The training was extremely arduous both physically and mentally. At the airport where she now works standards are very high. Perhaps it varies from airport to airport.
Those idiots at Birmingham should all be fired and/or charged with public endangerment.
Originally the TSA was to be called the Federal Air Transport Aviation Security Service but it wouldn’t fit on the jackets and when they used the acronym it spelled out F A T A S S.
In the last month I’ve been in 4 different airports and with the exception of Toledo OH, the TSA staff were indolent, arrogant, pimply teenagers entirely worthy of the above acronym.
Creating another unionized federal bureacracy was just another example of Dubya getting rolled by the ‘Rats.
It’s government work. What do you expect?
Remember when Tom Daschle and the Dems insisted that airport security be federalized?
‘Wouldn’t need one. It’s extremely difficult to get rid of employees in the UK. Conservatively, you’d need 6 months and records after records of “issues” with the follow up counciling.’
Really? I run two companies here in England and just fire people if they are breaking their contract or their work is poor. Never had a problem and never councilled them apart form warning them to not let the door hit them in the arse on the way out. I think you are confusing us with France or Germany, where what you say is true.
A private, members-only airline.
> The US has a Birmingham in Alabama, not Mississippi <
Yes, but:
The Birmingham AL area was SUPPOSED to have been part of Mississippi.
Then in 1817, the U. S. Congress arbitrarily and capriciously cut “Alabama” out of Mississippi’s eastern lands.
(Some say ‘twas a gross injustice to the Magnolia State!)
“And you’ve never seen nonunion workers sleeping on the job?”
LOL
It didn’t take you long to switch from ‘them’s fighting words,’ to ‘yeah, but everyone else does it.’
training is one thing- actually doing the job is another...the NY airports I’ve mentioned lack compared to other airports I’ve flown to (MCO, Mobile, Ala)...
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