I was threatened by union thugs when I was still a teenager in high school, barely old enough to work part time. I have hated unions ever since then, with that emotion growing as I learned that bullying young children is entirely in keeping for union enforcers and not just an isolated aberration.
I hear ya.
My first brush with unions came when I was about eighteen. I obtained a part time job as a box-boy at the local market. Nobody told me I had to join the union when I signed up. I was already working when I found out.
For some reason a guy several years my senior didn’t like me. I think it had something to do with the cashier ladies who did. Poor guy couldn’t take it.
At any rate, I decided it wasn’t worth dealing with the bonehead or the union, and I walked...
My folks introduced me to information regarding union activity when I was a young kid. I realized the mob quotient, and the tendency for the unions to bully people. That didn’t sit well with me, and I didn’t want any part of that.
It’s too bad that unions are so negative in our nation. There are times when I think employees should have representation. Sadly, it just turns out to be the death knell to business IMO.
First couple of weeks I was there the people I was working with kept asking me to join the union, I told them i wasn't interested.
About the third week I was there some little wormy clown, didn't have a butt big enough to smell, came up to me and told me I had to sign up with the union. I told him i wasn't interested.
He started poking me in the chest telling me if I didn't join the union there would be trouble.
Big mistake.
I grabbed that fagot looking finger, bent it backwards and gave it a good twist. He's now on the floor looking up at me. I told him if I had trouble out of the union I was going to look him up, tie my tool bag on his foot and throw him overboard.
Nobody else asked me to join the union.
The only other trouble I had was from a union worker that didn't want to work in the same area as a non union. He told me I had to go work somewhere else. I told him if he didn't want to work in the same area as a non union he could leave. He told me I didn't understand, he was union and I was leaving. He put his hand on my shoulder and started pushing me.
He found himself on the floor after being bounced off a bulkhead.
He told me he was going to get me fired. I told him I might as well kick his ass before I left. He took off and that was the last I heard from him.