LIFE UNDER HILLARY OR OBAMA

NEALZ NUZE ^ | 14 MARCH 2008 | NEAL BOORTZ

[Turret Gunner A20]

As you know, both Hillary and Obama have proposals out there that would eliminate union elections in the workplace. These proposals would institutionalize union intimidation and coercion in efforts to unionize workplaces. Now .. why do I have a problem with unions? Just read this email:

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Boortz, I witnessed this event at my place of employment and was astonished at what happened. This is what Hillary and her gang want to do to us. I work in a large corporation that has both Union and non union employees. One of my coworkers was moving their desk, to one desk over (in a cubicle land). They were instructed to call facilities (which is Unionized). He thought, forget about it, it will take them a week to move me, I'll just move myself. So he completed the task at hand, was able to complete it in 1 hour. Well, some of the union employees found out and complained. The union filed a grievance against him and he has now lost his job. This was all done because he was taking a job away from a Union worker by moving his equipment and personal desk items himself.

We were then told as a department that if we needed to move, even 1 desk over we're to box up all of our stuff and submitt a ticket to facilities to have them move us. I wouldn't have believed this would've happened except that I saw it myself.

Yeah America, vote for Hillary and see what you get...

[aruanan]

Why box up the stuff? Why not tell the union guy to do it?

[JRochelle]

Unions tend to have moblike pratices.

A few years ago my sister bought some display furniture at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. It was at the end of the show and she wanted to take it home that day. Well that was a Sunday and the guys wouldn’t let her take it on the elevator. They said she had to come back on Monday so the union guys could load it up for her. It was a 4hour round trip.

Well she and her husband were so angry. The showroom guy distracted the elevator people and they were able to sneak it past the moblike punks.

That was the last time we bought furniture there at that market for our store. Screw those bastards.

[KoRn]

I worked with a guy who used to work at a facility where the maintenance department was unionized. The light bulb went out in his office so he decided to change it, considering he couldn’t work in the dark. While he was up on the ladder changing the light bulb, one of the union employees saw him and yelled at him for “taking away someone’s job”. A grievance was filed, and the guy was suspended for a week without pay.

[Auntie Toots]

this type of union activity has been going on for years....I’ve been at trade shows where you can hardly plug in an electrical cord yourself...

[Bush_Democrat]

Why box up the stuff? Why not tell the union guy to do it?

'Cuz that would be outside of that union guy's job description - he would need to have a Box Packers Union member do that. Unfortunately, I'm only half-kidding...

[Lazamataz]

Unions tend to have moblike pratices.

Unicorns tend to have mobile pralines.

[LRS]

One of my coworkers was moving their desk, to one desk over (in a cubicle land). They were instructed to call facilities (which is Unionized). He thought, forget about it, it will take them a week to move me, I'll just move myself. So he completed the task at hand, was able to complete it in 1 hour. Well, some of the union employees found out and complained. The union filed a grievance against him and he has now lost his job.

Years ago, as the low man on the seniority totem pole, I had to leave my regular , sweat dripping hot job inside the building, and stand outside for 30 minutes a day in sub zero weather, all because a good union man filed grievances against our foreman for unloading single items off of pallets stored outside. My foreman apologized to me for having to do such nonsense. The good union man just told me that "we can't even allow small items slip by; it will cost some other guy a job." No, it just cost me a case of pneumonia...

[SMARTY]

A Union is a hiding place for bad workers

[SoCal Pubbie]

At the Comdex show in Chicago many years ago, the exhibitors’ people were not allowed to plug in computers to their booths’ electrical supply at McCormick Place, because computers were considered “machinery” and had to be hooked up by the union personnel. This included multi million dollar prototypes that sparks didn’t have a clue how to install correctly. Needless to say, once the contract with the city ran out Comdex never went back to Chicago.

[Joan Kerrey]

.I’ve been at trade shows where you can hardly plug in an electrical cord yourself... +++++++++++++++ And I know first hand that conventions have been lost because of rules like that and the meeting planners have let conference centers know why they cancelled future conventions there.

[Joisey]

Even though they are a small percentage of the total workforce, Unions are still managing to ruin the country.

The only way we will ever turn this country around, and take it back from the Socialists, is to First and Foremost abolish public employee unions.

[varyouga]

We had some lights being installed in the office by union guys.

One guy was doing most of the work and installing several lights a day. His boss came in about a week later and said union rules only allow an X # of lights installed daily per worker.

He had to spend another day removing and hiding the lights because they were scared of the union. And then working less per day to comply with the rules.

[RetiredArmy]

Unions are nothing short of just Mob hideouts. They always have been. The Mob is involved, and the ones running unions are like Mob bosses. Everyone fears them because they OWN your job. Your boss does not and you don't, the union does. You cross the union and you lose your job and maybe even worse, get beat up or killed. They are nothing short of being the same as the old Hitler Brown Shirts. Same thing. After I retired from the Army, I was offered a job at an interview. One of the first things the man told me was that I was REQUIRED to join the union and pay dues out of my check to the union. I stood up and said to him, no thanks. You can keep your job. I don't give my money to unions to tell me what to do and how to vote. And walked out. This was in Kitsap County Government job in Washington State. Their web site on jobs now tells you YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE UNION WITHIN 30 days. That was the last time I looked, but that was years ago. Probably still there on job notices.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Boortz, I witnessed this event at my place of employment and was astonished at what happened. This is what Hillary and her gang want to do to us. I work in a large corporation that has both Union and non union employees. One of my coworkers was moving their desk, to one desk over (in a cubicle land). They were instructed to call facilities (which is Unionized). He thought, forget about it, it will take them a week to move me, I'll just move myself. So he completed the task at hand, was able to complete it in 1 hour. Well, some of the union employees found out and complained. The union filed a grievance against him and he has now lost his job. This was all done because he was taking a job away from a Union worker by moving his equipment and personal desk items himself.

I think this person works at the same place I work.

[Wil H]

Why not tell the union guy to do it?

You don't "tell" a union guy to do anything if you are not part of the Union.

[nascarnation]

What will it take for the feds to over-ride state “right-to-work” laws? Will this just be a presidential edict?

[Wil H]

When The QE2 ocean Liner was being built back in the late sixties the entire construction was brought to a standstill by a dispute between the carpenters union and the metalworkers union over who could drill the holes in wood veneer covered metal doors that were being fitted to the cabins.

After a multi week work stoppage, it was resolved that for every hole, the carpententers would drill the first 1/40th of an inch, the metalworkers would then be scheduled to come and drill through the metal, then the carpenters would come back and finish of the last 1/40th of an inch on the other side...

That’s Unions for you...

[RicocheT]

A guy I know had the job for a major US car co. to organize car and truck shows around the US. He said for the Chicago show, NYC and the one in Vegas he had to ask his co. for a big wad of 100’s and twenties to pass out to the union thugs and union workers at the venues or he wouldn’t get a single thing done for the show booth and car move in and out. Lack of cash bribes would mean the work wouldn’t start.

[fweingart]

Well, one thing we know for sure. The suicide rate would go up. The misery index would soar. The muslim population of the USA would increase.

Meanwhile, the Constitution of The United States would be found crumpled in a WM dumpster behind the White House.

[fweingart]

These Marxist will insure that we see more days like this one.

[polymuser]

And unionists grin from ear to ear over having such control.
Just like college prof’s grin over their ability to browbeat students.

[Myrddin]

I had to deal with that kind of stupidity when I worked at the phone company. A simple task that would have taken me under a minute was a "union job". The union pukes were scheduled to do the work and took a month to get around to it. Leaving that world for my current employer was a major league improve. We don't have union labor working around our company. I can do whatever is necessary to get the job done in the most time efficient way.

In 2003, I had a display at the RSI show in Chicago. The union pukes expected me to put my laptop on a dolly and pay them $20 to bounce it over the rails. I just ignored the bellowing fat boys and carried my laptop slung over my shoulder as usual. There was no way I was going to pay some slob $20 to damage my personal property.

[varyouga]

I'm probably going to be scared to go into NYC under one of these clowns. I believe there WILL be a WMD attack if we don't get more aggressive and control our borders. There WILL be an energy crisis in major cities if we continue as we are.

They care more about some Haji getting water poured on his face than stopping a nuke attack. They care more about junk-science global warming than improving the power grid.

NYC losing power for a week or getting nuked would not be a pretty sight.

I'm going to start stockpiling supplies in my self-sufficient remote shack if the rats take over. Maybe even setup a wind turbine to power some electronics and keep a big tank of gasoline full.

[hdstmf]

Public Employee Unions are the last refuge of union memberships. Business and industry have out-sourced to home-based workers or other countries. Computers and robotics have reduced the number of workers needed to get things done. Public “servants” are more protected than ever before by crooks and politicans, (I know, that’s redundant).

Abuses by union thugs recounted on this thread are all to true. It’s no wonder people with self-esteem and professional dedication will not have anything to do with unions.

[reformedliberal]

When we did Handcrafted Gift trade shows, the promoter would have to pay the unions $20k (back in the 1980s/1990s)for drayage so that we would have the ability to load the hand trucks ourselves and take them up to the booth, unload them and return the handcarts.

We designed a snap apart and box-built display that required no tools. The unions insisted that even using a dime to turn a screw was using a tool.We were only allowed to retrieve our packing boxes if we lined up at a specific door in a very unsafe situation and sorted through all the boxes being offloaded from a semi. That motivated us to build lightweight wooden packing crates that became part of the display. The Fire Department forbade storage of cardboard boxes in the booths. We had to wait for Designers Union employees to staple cheesy plastic over rough-built 2/4s before putting our own cloths over it and those had to be impregnated with fireproofing chemicals. We had to show the bottle label to the Fire Chief.

There were other, awful examples too numerous to list. Miami and Chicago were bad. Philly and Boston were worse. Vegas was fine, for some reason and so was Honolulu., but we did design totally lightweight foamcore/velcro cloth displays for Hawaii and Vegas, since we had to fly there. The entire display and pre-mounted inventory folded up into the size of two large suitcases. We paid for lights, tables and one electrical outlet in the booth fee.

Don’t miss those days at all. It must be worse, now.